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nsington Market<br />
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· "A Kensington People's Paper''<br />
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Residents, merchants and environmental workers band together to seek solutions to the Market's garbage woes: see page 5<br />
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St. Christopher House Lacrosse team from Kensington Market and Alexandra Park, 1973: (from<br />
left) Lou Rae, Mike Arruda, Harold Howe, Mario Pepe, Virgilio Cosu~, Carlos Lopez<br />
When the<br />
Game was<br />
Lacrosse<br />
NelsonMelo<br />
remembers.<br />
"A North American<br />
game resembling hockey,<br />
but the ball is driven and<br />
caught with a crosse. Ba-<br />
.. sically the crosse re<br />
sembles a hockey stick<br />
except it has a long shank<br />
curved round at the end<br />
' with a net from the curve<br />
to the shank."<br />
See page 19<br />
Regular<br />
Features:<br />
News, news .............. 2,3<br />
Market Matters ......... 4,S<br />
Kensington ·<br />
Environmental .............. S<br />
Talking Drum,<br />
Kensingtoon, Last Time<br />
We Reported ............ ~ ... 6<br />
Kensington Place,<br />
Letters to Drum ............ 7<br />
Market Map,<br />
Drum Directory ...... I 0, II<br />
Market Market; _<br />
Market Gourmet .... 12, 13<br />
Kensington<br />
Common ................ 14, 15<br />
Dates to Watch .......... 17<br />
Learning With You ...... 18<br />
Also inside!<br />
HOSPITAL'S HOUSING<br />
PARKING PLAN<br />
Page 3<br />
Also inside!<br />
RAE OF SUN SIGN?<br />
POLITICAL HOROSCOPES<br />
Page 16<br />
Also inside!<br />
DRUM'S<br />
SUMMER<br />
Pages 8 & 9<br />
Also inside!<br />
FAMILY<br />
UNDER SIEGE<br />
Page 7
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Page 2, Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong><br />
Showdown at Cecil<br />
by Mike Milando<br />
Not with six-shooters at sun<br />
down, the weapons are much<br />
more subtle in an intractable<br />
bureaucracy. but fired is fired.<br />
Put simply, Cecil Centre wasn't<br />
big enough for the director<br />
Julia Goldstein and the program<br />
coordinator Madeline<br />
Yakimchuk. (In the same way<br />
some say it isn't big enough to<br />
serve as an office building for<br />
social-service agencies and as<br />
a community centre for neighbourhood<br />
residents.)<br />
Yakimchuk, Program Co ordinator<br />
at Cecil Centre, was a<br />
primary source for an earlier<br />
article in-the Drum on Cecil<br />
Centre. On August 1, immedi-.<br />
atelly following the last issue<br />
ofDrum,fivedaysafterreceiving<br />
a raise keyed to job performance,<br />
Yakimchuk was<br />
suspended "indefinitely and<br />
without pay pending further<br />
investigation and further action<br />
if necessary."<br />
The notic.e of suspension<br />
signed by Director Goldstein<br />
goes on: "This decision was<br />
made in relation to the grant<br />
application you filed with the<br />
Ontario Women's Directorate<br />
in my absence, which appears<br />
·- to be well beyond your authority<br />
and which was done without<br />
the knowledge of the Board<br />
or myself." The following day,<br />
August 2, Yakimchuk was<br />
fired.<br />
On that day, a union leaflet<br />
was handed out in front of Cecil<br />
Centre while Cecil's Board of<br />
Management met inside. The<br />
leaflet detailed the c-ircumstances<br />
of the grant application<br />
incident.<br />
According to that leaflet,<br />
Yakimchuk could not have<br />
filed the grant application<br />
"with the knowledge of the<br />
director or the Board" because<br />
Goldstein was on vacation and<br />
because staff have been ordered<br />
not to contact Board<br />
members directly.<br />
The leaflet also states that<br />
Goldstein did not direct Yakimchuk<br />
on what procedures<br />
to follow if unexpected and<br />
unavoidable decisions arose.<br />
Yakimchuk says she didn't<br />
find out about the vacation<br />
until the evening of the last<br />
. day before it began, July 3,<br />
and that other union staff<br />
didn't learn of the vacation<br />
until after it began.<br />
The Cecil Board of Management<br />
had copies of the leaflet<br />
at their meeting, but according<br />
to Board member Kerry<br />
Gearin, the questions raised<br />
by its content were ignored by<br />
other Board members, who<br />
rubber stamped the decision.<br />
The director Julia Goldstein<br />
and almost all current Board<br />
members won't discuss the<br />
circumstances of the firing,<br />
calling it a "confidential personnel<br />
matter" governed by<br />
the centre's collective agreement.<br />
Kerry Gearin has indicated<br />
her intention to resign from<br />
the Board, following Louisa<br />
Kamin and Yvonne Ferrer who<br />
have already resigned from the<br />
Board. Kamin and Ferrer resigned<br />
for reasons relating to a<br />
unanimous staff memo in<br />
March requesting the Board<br />
to review the director's job<br />
performance, and requesting<br />
confidential interviews with<br />
the board to assist them in that<br />
review.<br />
Advised of Yakimchuk's<br />
firing, Kamin said "From everything<br />
I'm learning about this<br />
place, it strikes me as a little<br />
banana republic with a law<br />
onto itself and ·no public accountability.<br />
And as a neighbour<br />
and a tax-payer I'm very<br />
offended."<br />
Also offended is Joanne<br />
Lindsay of MATCH. The<br />
group had scheduled a Cecil<br />
Centre event about violence<br />
against women. The grant<br />
application that led to<br />
Yakimchuk 's firing was to fund<br />
that event. After the firing,<br />
without MATCH being consulted,<br />
their grant application<br />
was cancelled by the Centre.<br />
Lindsay
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News<br />
Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 3<br />
Public to Have Say when<br />
Railway Lands .Hearing Resum~s<br />
by David Perlman<br />
THE Railway Lands issue tied<br />
up Hearing Room One of the<br />
Ontario Municipal Board for<br />
the whole of September.<br />
And the way this hearing is<br />
going, CN and CP could keep<br />
the City of Toronto's planning<br />
and legal department on the<br />
go, with hearing after hearing,<br />
precinct by precinct, for years<br />
to come.<br />
The hearing into lifting the<br />
City's hold on development of<br />
Precinct 9 of the CN Railway<br />
Lands began September 4.<br />
The timing looked good for<br />
CN. The Peterson government<br />
was about to be re-elected, and ·<br />
two weeks into the hearing<br />
Toronto was going to get the<br />
Olympic Games. That would<br />
put the City under public pressure<br />
to stop opposing development<br />
in Precinct 9. That is, in<br />
exchange for an "Olympic village"<br />
west of Spadina, allow<br />
CN to do what it wants east of<br />
Spadina.<br />
DAY ONE<br />
CN was there arguing that<br />
they should be allowed to<br />
proceed with the deal they have<br />
in the works to develop Precinct<br />
9. (Royal Trust wants to<br />
put two 24-storey commercial<br />
towers on the site.) The City<br />
was there to oppose CN, arguing<br />
that the time is not right,<br />
because any development on<br />
one precinct of the Railway<br />
Lands must fit in with the<br />
Of.ficia\ Plan for the whole<br />
Railway Lands.<br />
Marathon Realty (CP Rail),<br />
CN's private sector twin, was<br />
there to take notes for their<br />
own upcoming appeal against<br />
the City's refusal to lift the<br />
hold on development in Precinct<br />
3. As was Trizec/<br />
Bramalea, another developer<br />
that has bought into a precinct<br />
of the CP Railway Lands.<br />
Metro was there, on the City<br />
side, to say that Metro doesn't<br />
want development on the site<br />
until the sewers for the Railway<br />
Lands are adequate, and<br />
until the province agrees to<br />
support the Spadina LRT.<br />
Everyone going in was predicting<br />
a long hearing-three<br />
or four, maybe even five weeks.<br />
But the predicted four weeks<br />
ended <strong>Oct</strong>ober 2, with the end<br />
of the hearing nowhere in sight.<br />
The Board has suspended<br />
the hearing until November 15,<br />
so its members can get back to<br />
their already overloaded<br />
schedule of hearings. And now,<br />
looming over the specific decisions<br />
the OMB will have to<br />
make after this hearing, the<br />
biggest question is: What will<br />
the relationship between the<br />
OMB and the new provincial<br />
government be?<br />
A BIT MORE ABOUT THE<br />
OMB<br />
The Ontario Municipal<br />
Board (OMB) is not a court<br />
but it behaves a lot like onea<br />
witness stand, a room full of<br />
lawyers, a court reporter, an<br />
oath for witnesses, and three<br />
board members-"the panel,"<br />
looking like judges without<br />
robes.<br />
Every OQtario municipality<br />
must have an Official Plan to<br />
regulate its affairs. The OMB<br />
sits in judgment on how fairly<br />
those plans are being applied.<br />
Sometimes it's a city that<br />
appeals to the Board to uphold<br />
something. Sometimes it's<br />
someone challenging a city's<br />
interpretation of its own plan.<br />
In the case of Precinct 9, it is<br />
CN that has taken the City to<br />
this not-quite court. And not<br />
being a court, the OMB' cannot<br />
rule on whether or not<br />
there should be a hold on<br />
development in the precinct.<br />
But it can decide whether or<br />
not continuing the hold is fair.<br />
So far CN has explained that<br />
they want to develop an acre<br />
and-a-half of the Railway<br />
Lands on the south-east corner<br />
of Spadina and Front.<br />
And they argued that while<br />
they have followed all the steps<br />
prescribed by the City in the<br />
Railway Lands plan, the City<br />
is still refusing to li(t the hold,<br />
or control.<br />
Theoretically it is exactly the<br />
right kind of issue for the OMB<br />
to settle: Is the City "reasonably"<br />
or "unreasonably" refusing<br />
to remove the hold on<br />
Precinct 9? If the board decides<br />
"unreasonably," then CN<br />
wins.<br />
THE HEARING TO DATE<br />
CN's lawyers called witness<br />
after witness to testify to the<br />
fact that CN has done everything<br />
the Plan requires to get<br />
the hold lifted. ·<br />
Experts on microclimates,<br />
downwashed winds, soil sampling,<br />
transportation, urban<br />
planning, other plans and other<br />
developments (like the Massey<br />
Lands) were heard. Most<br />
of all, what was offered were<br />
interpretations of what is really<br />
meant by one section of<br />
the Plan or another, from CN's<br />
perspective. And evidence that<br />
there hasn't routinely been<br />
good dialogue between CN's<br />
consultants and the City's planners.<br />
CN's case took nearly two<br />
weeks to present.<br />
Then, at even greater length,<br />
witnesses for the City followed,<br />
arguing that CN's application<br />
to lift the hold doesn't yet come<br />
up to the standards of the Plan.<br />
The City has called senior<br />
planning staff, urban designers,<br />
a planner concerned with<br />
workplace daycare and a witness<br />
from Go Transit who says<br />
it's time to call a halt to all<br />
development in the Railway<br />
Lands until GO has assurances<br />
about the future expansion of<br />
Union Station. The City has<br />
also called it's own outside<br />
experts on plans.<br />
But they still have several<br />
witnesses to go, including their<br />
Commissioner of Public<br />
Works. And after the City is<br />
done, Metro wants to call<br />
experts on Metro's reasons<br />
why the hold should not be<br />
lifted.<br />
LOOKING AHEAD<br />
When the hearing resumes<br />
November 15, it's expected to<br />
last at least another two weeks.<br />
The problem is that, win or<br />
lose, the City then will have to<br />
get ready for another Railway<br />
Lands hearing as soon as this<br />
one is over. The OMB has already<br />
set January 28 as the<br />
date to hear Marathon Realty<br />
(CP Rail) argue that the hold<br />
on Precinct 3, in its half of the<br />
Railway Lands, should go.<br />
There's doubt in some City<br />
planners'. minds that they can<br />
continue being involved in<br />
hearings like this without their<br />
work suffering. The two railway<br />
companies could keep the<br />
Thrift Villa ••• TACCT •••<br />
The Changing Faces of 303<br />
Boris Smith<br />
THE latest incarnation of the<br />
premises situated at 303 Augusta<br />
is nothing less than ...<br />
"The Centre of The New<br />
World Convention".<br />
The centre is being billed as<br />
"a venue dedicated to hosting<br />
environmentally orientated<br />
events that will contribute to<br />
the 'greening' of the community,<br />
our city, our 'province,<br />
country and planet to support<br />
the realization of a healthy<br />
world for its people and the<br />
animal and plant species that<br />
adorn it."<br />
A co-operative work-party<br />
.. ·was planned to be held over<br />
Thankgiving weekend (as<br />
DRUM was going to press) to<br />
undertake the painting of the<br />
building's facade, including<br />
transforming its awning "into<br />
a beautiful multi-coloured<br />
rainbow design, painting a<br />
'starscape' and light tone wash<br />
on the brick face ... and creating<br />
an artistic rendition of the<br />
planet Earth on a rigid panel<br />
to be mounted on either face<br />
of the overhanging sign ... "<br />
Co-ordinated by visionary<br />
graphics artist Jerome Orlowski,<br />
the centre is operated by a<br />
non-profit corporation whose<br />
mandate is to "provide a venue<br />
for educational and conservationist<br />
measures of a multitude<br />
of organizations who are working<br />
to preserve and transform<br />
our awareness of adverse impacts<br />
on the natural environment<br />
and its inhabitants."<br />
Our<br />
New<br />
MPP<br />
Our New member of the<br />
Ontario Legislature, Rosario<br />
Marchese, is now Ontario's<br />
Minister of Culture and Communications.<br />
He took.his seat<br />
in the legislature this month<br />
with the newly elected NDP<br />
government. A resident of<br />
Montrose Avenue, Marchese<br />
brings eight years'experience<br />
as a Toronto school Board trustee<br />
for Wards 4 and 5 to his<br />
new post. He says he 'II be relying<br />
on his constituents to introduce<br />
him to particular community<br />
concerns. His constituency<br />
office opens this month<br />
on Dundas Street West at Manning<br />
Ave. For what astrologer<br />
Robin Armstrong thinks ... see<br />
page 16.<br />
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ORIENTATION PLAN OF PRECINCTS' B AND 9 ~<br />
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Map of Railway lands slated for corporate development<br />
city's planning and legal department<br />
on the go, with hearing<br />
after hearing, precinct by<br />
precinct, year round.<br />
And what's true for the City<br />
is equally true of the Municipal<br />
Board's resources. They<br />
don't seem to have enough<br />
members as it is for all the<br />
applications they get for hearings.<br />
While the average hearing,<br />
with only one or maybe two<br />
board members presiding, is<br />
over in a couple of days, this<br />
kind of monster hearing consumes<br />
15-20 times the public<br />
resources.<br />
Everyone involved agrees<br />
that this hearing will have to<br />
set some important precedents.<br />
No-one can see having to go<br />
through this ordeal ~very time<br />
one of the railway ~ompanies<br />
wants to develop one precinct<br />
or another.<br />
So far the City is making a<br />
strong sounding case, and .<br />
"putting up a good fight." But<br />
that fight should be seen in<br />
context. The City has not argued<br />
that there should be less<br />
development on the site. Nor<br />
has Metro-only that permission<br />
for a Spadina LRTshould<br />
be given before permission to<br />
build.<br />
Only a few members of the<br />
public, have followed the hearing<br />
closely, day-by-day. And<br />
press and media have been<br />
conspicuous by their absence.<br />
So even though Monday,<br />
November 19, has been declared<br />
a "public day" it will be<br />
interesting to see whether<br />
there is a way of tuning the<br />
public in to the highly focussed<br />
technical concerns of the<br />
Board.<br />
Or whether there is any way<br />
of tuning the Board in to the<br />
general concerns of the public.<br />
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •<br />
DISTANT DRUM<br />
(Coming in November)<br />
Drum Talking<br />
WITH Kensington Market DRUM now into its second<br />
year, we're beginning to move into other media besides<br />
print. As well as continuing to publish this newspaper on a<br />
monthly basis, we have launched DRUM TALKING, a<br />
multilingual telephone news and information service operating<br />
through the Talking Yell ow Pages.<br />
You can access DRUM TALKING at any time by using<br />
a touch-tone or push-button telephone and dialling 283-<br />
1010. When asked, simply enter the code DRUM (3786).<br />
As with DRUM, the service is free and there is no cost to<br />
callers.<br />
DRUM TALKING enables us to update news items ap- -<br />
pearing in the newspaper, as well as provide reports of<br />
breaking stories. It also offers a range of other information<br />
related to the Market, especially about its merchants and<br />
the goods and services they provide. Of prime importance<br />
is news and features concerning residents of the area.<br />
DRUM TALKING will initially have six categories, in-.<br />
eluding services besides English, all accessible by simply<br />
pushing the relevant number on your telephone key pad.<br />
For more information, contact DRUM at ern -0192 (FAX<br />
599-DRUM), and ask for Brian.<br />
New Schedule<br />
From this edition, The Kensington Market DRUM will<br />
be published monthly on a regular schedule. See page 6 for<br />
details.
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Page 4, Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober,J990<br />
Canopy Deal<br />
Defi.nitely in the Works<br />
Market Matters<br />
' '" -<br />
by David Perlman<br />
According to Marc Baraness,<br />
head of City's Urban Design<br />
Division, there's still hope for<br />
more than forty Kensington<br />
canopies.<br />
As we reported, Public<br />
Works is hot to trot with their<br />
plan to get rid of all canopies<br />
that are not in compliance with<br />
Tornto's streets by-law. We<br />
predicted last issue that an<br />
Urban Design Division planner<br />
was recommending solving<br />
the problem by trying some-.<br />
thing brave - seeking to have<br />
the Market recognized as a<br />
public amenity.<br />
Baraness, head of Urban<br />
Design, however, dismissed the<br />
-idea of pursuing municipal<br />
"distinct society" status for<br />
Kensington - "a design solution"<br />
he said "could be found".<br />
His response was frustrating to<br />
Kensington people who have<br />
seen the Public Works Department<br />
block any idea that did<br />
not meet the letter of the law.<br />
If unconfirmed reports from<br />
the Planning Department are<br />
true, Baraness is proposing a<br />
much simpler plan. For every<br />
merchant who wants to try a<br />
canopy design that meets Public<br />
Works' objections, Baraness<br />
will come up with an architect<br />
who will work for free with that<br />
canopy holder.<br />
In some ways the suggestion<br />
is disappointing because it<br />
sidesteps the real issue: a real<br />
live · open air street market<br />
needs to be governed as a market,<br />
not as a collection of streets.<br />
But Baraness' idea is better.<br />
Lots of store owners will be<br />
helped along the way. And<br />
eventually some architect will<br />
have to figure out a way to<br />
make the canopy housing Cafe<br />
La Gaffe and three other stores<br />
"temporary, unenclosed, and<br />
easily removable" (which is<br />
whatPublicWorkswants).And<br />
when that happens, the argument<br />
over what can be distinctive<br />
in a Market will hot up<br />
-again ..<br />
An Apple a Day<br />
for 40 Years<br />
Ben and Luba Baum Retire<br />
by Masha Buell<br />
There's a tiny empty storefront<br />
on Kensington A venue<br />
which a casual passerby or<br />
tourist might not notice at all.<br />
But Kensingtonians of all sorts<br />
are missing Ben and Luba in a<br />
big way.<br />
You wouldn't think an older<br />
couple with a little fruit stand<br />
could have such an impact on<br />
the lives of so many people, but<br />
they did. You can tell the regular<br />
shoppers these days because<br />
they stop and do a double take,<br />
noticing right away that the few<br />
baskets of fruit on the outdoor<br />
stand outside #63 Kensington<br />
are not what the Baums would<br />
have had. Nothing wrong with<br />
the stuff --but it just not the<br />
same.<br />
On Saturdays, the cars pull<br />
up in front of the empty storefront,<br />
and then move on. No<br />
offence to anyone else, but they<br />
wanted a bushel of Baum's<br />
apples, or Baum's pears, or the<br />
sweetest carrots in Kensington.<br />
And you knew that Luba had<br />
examined every one of those<br />
strawberries herself. Individually.<br />
People walking through the<br />
market very early in the morn<br />
, ing, also stop and look, puzzled,<br />
maybe glance at their watch.<br />
Accustomed to picking up a<br />
few bits of fruit on the way to<br />
work or school, they would stop<br />
for a chat with Luba while she<br />
waited for "her boyfriend" Ben<br />
to pull up in that battered old<br />
blue pick -up truck. And maybe<br />
wind up late for wherever they<br />
were going. But arrive an improved<br />
person.<br />
P.ut one perfect, field ripened<br />
Ontario tomato on the Baum's<br />
little scale, and a tough-look- ·<br />
ing finger poked in the price.<br />
And then you'd stare gravely<br />
at the price together. And then,<br />
after a pause, Ben or Luba<br />
would say "thirty-seven cents"<br />
in exactly the same way as if<br />
you'd spent thirty seven dollars.<br />
And then say "Take! Take<br />
and eat! To your hungry children<br />
who, it happens, are eyeing<br />
a bushel of crisp new pears.<br />
But you paid for that tomato.<br />
And if you hang around you<br />
might get a recipe for something.<br />
Or success stories about<br />
their own children, all living<br />
and working in worlds vastly<br />
different from Kensington.<br />
Listen to them talk with customers<br />
who are the grown-up<br />
children of customers they've<br />
known for forty years.<br />
They came at a time when<br />
Europe was a fearful place.<br />
Cautious, hard-working<br />
people, they needed a place<br />
where they could do something<br />
real to secure the future of their<br />
family. And Kensington was<br />
that place. But unlike many<br />
others who came, with that security<br />
obtained, they stayed.<br />
They haven't lived in the market<br />
for years, but they kept their<br />
little store going, in all kinds of<br />
weather, doing their bit for<br />
humakind, and themselves, and<br />
Kensington.<br />
Luba and Ben always said<br />
that someday it would IJe the<br />
right time to retire. And when<br />
the time came, the decision was<br />
typically straightforward. Ben<br />
needed a cataract operation -<br />
and meantime he'd been told<br />
he shouldn't drive. And contrary<br />
to all appearances, the<br />
little blue truck couldn't drive<br />
to the Market on its own.<br />
So it was time.<br />
Ti01e Running Out on<br />
Restaurant By-Law<br />
by David Perlman<br />
The restaurant control bylaw<br />
of July '89 is in its dying<br />
days. There's a report in the<br />
final stages recommending<br />
a permanent by-law. The<br />
new by-law, we hear, would<br />
limit the size of new restaurants,<br />
and make it possible<br />
for merchants to provide<br />
housing above stores without<br />
having to provide parking.<br />
,<br />
Such a by-law would have<br />
cut at least in half the two<br />
years it took to get permission<br />
to build apartments<br />
above this bakery . See Picture<br />
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And it would make possible<br />
apartments like these<br />
Picture A over a bakery like<br />
this Picture B.<br />
More residents in the<br />
Market mean safer streets,<br />
all day and all night.<br />
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Looking for wap<br />
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Visit the Toronto Business Self-Help Office at City Hall and<br />
find out how it can help you. Plan to attend one or more in<br />
the series of specially-designed seminars offered during Small<br />
Business Week.<br />
Monday <strong>Oct</strong>ober 22<br />
Open House: Toronto Bu~iness Self-Help Office,<br />
main floor, City Hall, 4.30- 6.30pm<br />
Seminar: "Starting a Small Business"<br />
Committee Room #3, 2nd floor, City Hall,<br />
6.45 - 9.00pm<br />
Tuesday <strong>Oct</strong>ober 23<br />
Open House: Toronto Business Self-Help Office,<br />
main floor, City Hall, 4.30- 6.30pm<br />
Seminar: "Tax Planning for the Small Business"<br />
Committee Room #3, 2nd floor, City Hall,<br />
6.45 - 9.00pm<br />
Wednesday <strong>Oct</strong>ober 24<br />
Open House: Toronto Business Self-Help Office,<br />
- main floor, City Hall, 4.30 - 6.30pm<br />
Seminar: "How to Sell to the City and Metro Toronto"<br />
Committee Room #6, 2nd floor, City Hall,<br />
6.45 - 9.00pm<br />
Admission is free, but registration is limited.<br />
Call392-6646 before Friday, <strong>Oct</strong>ober 19 to reserve your place.<br />
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Market Matters<br />
Garbage Crunch<br />
by Mike Milando<br />
After two meetings to talk<br />
about garbage in the Market,<br />
attended by residents and<br />
merchants, a number of initiatives<br />
are underway concerning<br />
city collection and composting<br />
of garbage.<br />
While restaurants everywhere<br />
have every night pickup,<br />
as does neighbouring<br />
Spadina Avenue, Market merchants<br />
have pick-ups only two<br />
nights a week and feel this is<br />
poorly inadequate and more<br />
importantly, unfair. "We need<br />
an extra pick-up each week",<br />
says Sam Lunansky of August<br />
Fruit Market. "There's a Market<br />
in Kensington Market". ·<br />
At the last meeting of the<br />
Kensington garbage action<br />
group at303 Augusta, local residents<br />
and environmental workers<br />
agreed that the merchants<br />
need and clearly deserve an<br />
extra weekly pick-up. Some<br />
residents feel that the threat to<br />
, merchants of private garbage<br />
disposal costs putting them out<br />
ofbusinessextends to the whole<br />
neighbourhood. The Kensington<br />
Market wouldn't be the<br />
Kensington Market without the<br />
Market, and after the merchants<br />
could not afford to do<br />
business here, most of us would<br />
not afford to be able to live<br />
here. Things would change.<br />
But local residents and environmental<br />
workers together<br />
are seeking ways to combine<br />
this immediate merchant local<br />
concern and their wider concern<br />
for environmental preservation<br />
and health. They see the<br />
estimated 4 tons per day of merchants'<br />
organic food waste as<br />
potentially 1 ton of compostif<br />
it were recycled. But the City,<br />
who won't give the merchants<br />
another weekly pick-up,<br />
doesn't have a composting site<br />
Task Force Refuses· to Quit<br />
by David Perlman<br />
Following Councillor<br />
Amer's resignation as chair of<br />
the Kensington Task Force,<br />
City staff have brought forward<br />
a report recommending<br />
that the task force be abolished<br />
as a committee of council.<br />
That staff report was before<br />
a meeting of the City neighbourhoods<br />
committee September<br />
19. Kensington residents<br />
and merchants at the<br />
meeting challenged staff's<br />
position that the work of the<br />
task force was done or under<br />
control at the staff level.<br />
The committee did not vote<br />
on the staff recommendation<br />
to can the task force. Instead,<br />
that staff report goes to a<br />
meeting ofthe task force, with<br />
both City Councillor Amer and<br />
Metro Councillor Martin in<br />
attendance. The date of that<br />
meeting has not been set. That<br />
meeting will have to produce a<br />
solution, or several:<br />
- the community wants political<br />
power and wholistic<br />
planning;<br />
- the politicians want to be<br />
able to take to their councils<br />
recommendations that hve a<br />
chance of passing;<br />
- city staff think they have<br />
enough regular "official channels"<br />
to cope with as it is, and<br />
don't want to have to deal with<br />
another one.<br />
The staff/council threat to<br />
terminate the task force has<br />
been beaten back. But it's a<br />
clear sign that, without changes<br />
to the Task Force time is running<br />
out.<br />
Big Fish On Augusta<br />
either.<br />
Robert Rex of the Friendly<br />
Chameleon says there are farmers<br />
and others who want the<br />
organic food waste for composting.<br />
But for them to pick it<br />
up from merchants is either too<br />
uneconomical for them, or its<br />
schedule is too haphazard for<br />
merchants. The breakthrough<br />
here is that many merchants<br />
are saying they are willing to<br />
separate their garbage at the<br />
source to get it collected.<br />
The last meeting of this garbage<br />
action group included local<br />
residents, merchants, environmental<br />
workers, and City<br />
and Metro officials. A letter is<br />
being drafted by the group to<br />
City Councillor Liz Amer urging<br />
her to support the call for<br />
an extra pick-up a week.<br />
Also a sub-committee of the<br />
group is drawing up a survey<br />
for merchants, to try to confirm<br />
that there is support for<br />
the Group's "Tuesday, Thursday<br />
Saturday" City-collection<br />
call. The group also hopes to<br />
get information on quantity and<br />
breakdown of individual<br />
business's garbage. Research<br />
of the potential users of the organic<br />
food waste is continuing,<br />
as is research into commercial<br />
and residential composters.<br />
Exactly how to organize the<br />
extra pick-up is not clear but a<br />
request has been made to the<br />
task force to get the political<br />
Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 5<br />
Market Residents are practically dwarfed by great gobs of<br />
~all rolling now. There is no garbage<br />
time to lose.<br />
----tl KENSINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL 1-1 -<br />
Osler President John Andronakos, Gus Mbambatstikos of Aegean<br />
Fish and Osler VP George Kalomiris at the opening of Osler's mew<br />
Kensington branch; with John and George holding American Red<br />
Snappers. On the right is Mike Rost'eing, leader of Band-Calypso.<br />
Boris Smith<br />
A NEW face in Kensington<br />
Market is the Osler Fish Terminal,<br />
at 194 Augusta Ave.<br />
Last month's opening of the<br />
store, which, under the management<br />
of George Kalomiris<br />
offers a variety of fresh fish and<br />
live lobster, was heralded with<br />
music by Band-Calypso.<br />
The company, headquartered<br />
on Osler Street, supplies<br />
hotels and restaurants around<br />
Toronto and is already known<br />
to Knob Hill Farm customers<br />
at Dixie-Weston. Osler also has<br />
a store under construction in<br />
Cambridge, as well as plans for<br />
another in Scarborough.<br />
Asked if this was the<br />
right time economically to be<br />
opening a new venture, Osler<br />
President John Andronakos<br />
said, "If you take into account<br />
the growing movement towards<br />
health consciousness, then our<br />
kind of stores meet that need."<br />
Existing Kensington market<br />
fishmongers interviewed by<br />
DRUM said they were not concerned<br />
by the new competition.<br />
It's not garbage!<br />
Nothing is wasted when soybeans are made into tofu and soy milk. These barrels of soft moist<br />
ground and cooked beans, with all the valuable milk spun out of them will be sent off to farmers for<br />
Livestock feed. (see LEARNING WITH YOU on page 18)<br />
Waste redudion.<br />
Put in your two cents ... ,<br />
and Metro will put out dollars.<br />
Most people think they could<br />
tell the government a thing or<br />
two. Well here's your chance. If<br />
you're part of a non-profit group<br />
in East York, Etobicoke, North<br />
York, Scarborough, Toronto or<br />
York, Metro would like to hear<br />
from you. Tell them how you'd<br />
reduce garbage in you!' neighbourhood.<br />
They'll not only listen .. they<br />
might pay you up to $2,000 to<br />
put your plan to work. (Larger<br />
organizations with waste reduction<br />
experience could-receive up<br />
to $20,000).<br />
So put in your two cents<br />
worth todday. It could mean a<br />
lot... to all of us.<br />
Call 392-5420 to apply for your<br />
community action wa~te<br />
reduction grant today. The first<br />
two deadlines for applicati9ns<br />
are <strong>Oct</strong>ober 15, <strong>1990</strong>, and January<br />
15, 1991.<br />
Someone' s Garbage<br />
is Someone' s Gold<br />
Here's the list of what you<br />
call garbage that someone out<br />
there is willing to take from<br />
you, (sometimes even to collect):<br />
asphalt, concrete, clean fill,<br />
drums, drywall, food and organic<br />
waste, glass, metal, paper,<br />
plastic and rubber, textiles,<br />
tires, wood, and miscellaneous.<br />
How can you make the<br />
connections? Call392-4200 and<br />
ask for your free copy of the<br />
Metropolitan Toronto Recycling<br />
Markets Directory.<br />
Or direct your specific<br />
questions to DRUM.
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Talking Drum Talking Drum Talk<br />
TALKi.NG<br />
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.....<br />
~<br />
Last<br />
Time<br />
We Reported<br />
The Kensington residents'<br />
and businessmen's<br />
~ssociations are<br />
calling on City Council<br />
to renew the mandate of<br />
the Kensington Market<br />
Area Task Force.<br />
Drum says no. Not until<br />
those associations have<br />
renewed their own mandate<br />
in the community. Publish<br />
details on how people can<br />
join. And once people<br />
have had a fair chance to<br />
do so, hold well-publicized<br />
meetings to elect<br />
an adequate number of office<br />
bearers for each association.<br />
Then and only<br />
then, the City should<br />
heed the KRA and KMBA<br />
calls for a renewed Task<br />
Force functioning as a<br />
committee of Gouncil_, and<br />
should grant KMBA and KRA<br />
membership in that Task<br />
Force.<br />
But at the same time membership<br />
in the Task Force<br />
should also be granted to<br />
other Kensington area associations<br />
serving a community<br />
purpose.<br />
Drum is a publication of Kensington Market Drum,<br />
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Drum is published monthly.<br />
Phone (416) 977-0192 for information on deadlines.<br />
Fax (416) 599-DRUM<br />
Drum is distributed free, door to<br />
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(see map p. 8-9) and further afield.<br />
And it is available at the commercial<br />
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at selected oudets across Metro.<br />
For schools and study groups, up to<br />
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free of charge it you collect.<br />
Drum is available by subscription,<br />
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Letters to DRUM<br />
Councillor says Ca~ Cops<br />
September 28, <strong>1990</strong><br />
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Dear Friends,<br />
My office has received complaints<br />
from residents of the<br />
Kensington Market area regarding<br />
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There is strong feeling<br />
among some residents that<br />
.-_is the centre of illegal<br />
drug activity. If you have any<br />
evidence of this kind of activity,<br />
it would be useful to register<br />
this information formally<br />
with the Metro Licensing<br />
Commission, 20 Holly Street,<br />
Toronto,OntarioM4S3Bl,the<br />
Metropolitan Toronto Police<br />
Commission, Chief of Police<br />
William McCormack, 40 College<br />
Street, Toronto MSG 213,<br />
and my office, 390 Bay Street,<br />
Room213, TorontoMSH3Y7.<br />
Thank you<br />
Dale Martin<br />
Toronto Downtown<br />
Is it a "Community" Board?<br />
To the Community<br />
This letter is written out of<br />
my concern for the present<br />
direction of Cecil Street Community<br />
Centre. The Executive<br />
has not accepted its role of<br />
serving the Administrative<br />
Committee, who elected them.<br />
Urgent issues have not been<br />
presented to the Administrative<br />
Committee for its input<br />
before serious decisions have<br />
been approved by the Board.<br />
The Executive's duty is to<br />
serve the Administrative Committee,<br />
who in turn serve ' the<br />
community - hence the title<br />
"Community Board". If we are<br />
to bring power to the people in<br />
our neighbourhood, then the<br />
people, including the Administrative<br />
Committee, will have<br />
to be informed of what is happening<br />
at the Cecil Street<br />
Community Centre.<br />
Kerry Gearin<br />
Executive Board Member<br />
Cecil Street Community<br />
Centre<br />
Letters continue next page<br />
Drum Goes Monthly<br />
Our next 6 publication dates are;<br />
• Nov a<br />
• Dec 1<br />
• Jan 3<br />
• Feb 1<br />
• March 1<br />
• April4<br />
For information regarding deadlines please call<br />
Drum at 922-0192. If you are inquiring about<br />
deadlines for the Nov. edition, you should call<br />
soon<br />
• that the lRT mystery right now was<br />
whether there was a breakthrough or<br />
bad faith in the recommendations of a<br />
m~eting of Metro's Economic Development<br />
Committee last June ....<br />
Bad faith, it seems. Metro's<br />
passed an LRT with 20,000 sq<br />
feet of sidewalk loss, a raised<br />
track, no transit stop at St. Andrew,<br />
no compensation for lost<br />
parking, and "if possible"<br />
added to their commitment to<br />
make the line wheelchair accessible.<br />
Next stop, a provincial<br />
hearing 6-8 months from<br />
now.<br />
• that a canopies solution might be the<br />
Market's salvation ....<br />
no Market, of course, would<br />
also solve the problem of what<br />
to do with the canopies<br />
• that Drum's first year's done!<br />
and we have high hopes, and a<br />
schedule, for our second. See<br />
Distant Drums, page 3<br />
• that, under normal circumstances, before<br />
the next Drum, the Peterson tories<br />
would have called, held an election,-and<br />
been re-elected for another four to five<br />
years<br />
Normal is as normal does.<br />
• that we were gone fishin'<br />
There was a catch<br />
• that in mid-July the twelve month control<br />
by-low (barring new restaurants;<br />
toke-outs, and bakeshops in Kensington)<br />
had been extended for six months<br />
and if the six months isn't<br />
enough to get a good new bylaw<br />
through, we'll be back to<br />
square one.<br />
• that Word Councillor Amer said she<br />
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•••••••••••••••••••• Letters may be postedor hand delivered to Kensington Market Drum, Letters. 72A<br />
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Deep Quong Invitation<br />
The Editor<br />
Kensington Drum<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
We invite all the comunity<br />
to an -OPEN HOUSE for the<br />
Deep Quong Non-Profit<br />
Homes, the 70 unit housing<br />
development to be built on the<br />
site of the aging Labour Lyceum<br />
at 27 Cecil Street with<br />
the assistance of the provincial<br />
government.<br />
The purpose of this infill<br />
development is to provide<br />
much needed affordable, secure,<br />
permanent housing for<br />
workers in the community<br />
including restaurant, hospital,<br />
retail and garment workers.<br />
The non-profit will provide<br />
homes for a full range of incomes<br />
with both subsidized<br />
and market rents. A community<br />
board will ensure a wellmanaged<br />
buidling responsive<br />
to community concerns.<br />
While adding affordable<br />
housing to this mixed use area,<br />
theN on-Profit will bring other<br />
improvements to the neighbourhood.<br />
The existing parking<br />
lot and subsequent Janeway<br />
congestion will be eliminated<br />
as all parking will be replaced<br />
with one level of underground<br />
parking.<br />
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Deep Quong Non<br />
Profit Homes has been on the<br />
drawing board for several years<br />
and has undrgone improvements<br />
and reduction in size<br />
requested by community<br />
members at previous public<br />
planning meetings. It now<br />
meets city planning criteria as<br />
well.<br />
We are asking that you attend<br />
the Open House on the<br />
23rd,between 5 and 9pm at 25<br />
Cecil St. see the development<br />
for yourself and lend your support<br />
in the next step ·of the<br />
City's planning approval process,<br />
the Land Use Committee<br />
meeting on <strong>Oct</strong>ober 30.<br />
Deep Quong will replace<br />
local low rental housing which<br />
gentrification and commercial<br />
redevelopment have destroyed.<br />
We are saying that<br />
more residents on the street<br />
will make the neighbourhood<br />
a safer place. If any Drum<br />
readers are interested, we invite<br />
them to become involved.<br />
There will be places for them<br />
on Deep Quong committees.<br />
Your very truly,<br />
Anne Grasham<br />
President,<br />
Deep Quong Non<br />
Profit Homes Inc.<br />
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Survivors Aid<br />
Mohawk ·survivors<br />
Drum's Summer<br />
SUNDAY JULY 15,2 pm<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
RAINED OUT KENSINGTON FESTIVAL FOOD<br />
EN ROUTE TO KANESTAKE?<br />
Festival of Survivors of Assault scheduled for Kensington Market<br />
today was postponed due to rain. It will take place next Sunday; the<br />
group orgqnizing the festival is at the last Temptation Restaurant { 12<br />
Kensington Ave, Phone 599-2551 ). They have made a preliminary<br />
decision to take the food prepared for participants in the festival<br />
through the barricades at Kanestake.<br />
A final decision is expected by 3.00pm.<br />
PRESS RELEASE:<br />
More than a dozen supporters of the Toronto Festival of Survivors<br />
are taking a caravan of food to the Mohawks at Kanestake in Quebec<br />
after today's festival was rained out. Three vehicles will be leaving<br />
shortly after 8.00pm today {Sunday July 15).<br />
'We are doing this as an act of solidarity with fellow survivors, and<br />
in support of non-violent action," say festival organizers.<br />
The food was donated by downtown merchants to feed hundreds<br />
of participants in the first annual Festival of Survivors. The festival will<br />
now be held from 1 O.OOam to 1 O.OOpm on Sunday, July 22, at '<br />
Bellevue Park at Augusta and Wales, in the Kensington Market, and<br />
more donations of food and money are needed.<br />
'We are celebrating that we have survived all kinds of physical,<br />
political, economic and social abuse and can still sing, dance, design,<br />
paint, sculpt, photograph, fi_lm, write and tell our stories." ·<br />
All women artists are invited to participate July 22. Anyone wishing<br />
to display art work, perform or donate food or money can call ...<br />
"We're a group of men and<br />
women from Toronto with<br />
food for the people atOka."<br />
"You cannot go past," the<br />
uniform said. Gun in hand-at<br />
the ready-he indicated he<br />
wanted us to make a U-turn.<br />
"QK," says Mary, the driver<br />
and organizer of the excursion<br />
to Oka, and started to pull out<br />
of line.<br />
"Wait, wait, wait." It was<br />
unclear why he had changed<br />
his mind. "Let me see your<br />
driver's licence."<br />
Mary handed it over. Satisfied<br />
with that, he asked for the<br />
ownership. "I haven't got it,"<br />
said Mary, pointing to Nancy,<br />
"it's her car."<br />
Nancy shrugs her shoulders.<br />
She doesn't know where it is<br />
either. Everyone is ordered out<br />
of the car and onto a grassy<br />
knoll between the road and<br />
the cheese factory, until now<br />
Oka's only claim to fame.<br />
Still at the car, my camera up<br />
to my face, a finger looms near<br />
the focus button as an armed<br />
policeman approaches me,<br />
hand outthrust aiming for the<br />
camera. I can't remember<br />
whether or not I had a chance<br />
to focus. I was able to hit the<br />
main button, though, and a<br />
picture was taken.<br />
The officer demanded I give<br />
him my camera. "But it isn't<br />
mine," I pleaded.<br />
"She's here for a paper," _<br />
someone offered.<br />
"Where's your I.D.?" I<br />
shrugged my shoulders apologetically.<br />
The officer took the<br />
camera.<br />
"PLEASE give me back the<br />
camera, it doesn't belong to<br />
me," I begged. Really begged.<br />
I almost fell to my knees, but·<br />
chose a less submissive, more<br />
sedate posture, hands clasped<br />
prayer -like, doing my very best<br />
to convey sincerity.<br />
The last word from David<br />
had been, "Try to hang onto<br />
the camera-I've promised<br />
Chris the DRUM would be<br />
responsible should his camera<br />
end up in the hands of some<br />
policeman."<br />
"You can't do that!" one of<br />
us stated, "what's your name<br />
and number?"<br />
"I'm Sergeant Le Blanc,<br />
6555. I'm in charge here."<br />
Then Graham was threatened<br />
with arrest if he took a<br />
picture. "You can't do that! If<br />
you take pictures it will impede<br />
us in our job. That's why<br />
we'll arrest you."<br />
i thought I detected a giimmer<br />
of fun in his eyes. The<br />
camera was returned in exchange<br />
for a promise not to<br />
use it.<br />
Mary, Nancy, Graham,<br />
Marlene and I sat on the grass<br />
and watched the policemen<br />
search the two vehicles. Someone<br />
sniffed the air, and remarked,<br />
"Ah, essence of BS."<br />
The unmistakeable air of fresh<br />
manure rose from we're not<br />
sure where. Much talk of: "No<br />
civil rights here," ... "How dare<br />
they ... I can't beleieve it!" ...<br />
"Is this Canada?" ... "What's<br />
going -on?"<br />
Watching, counting as best I<br />
could, police cars passing.<br />
None had less than four police<br />
in it. Fifty or more police cars,<br />
meaning 200 or more policemen.<br />
At least one policewoman<br />
in uniform, wearing<br />
radio headgear.<br />
It reminded me of that current<br />
scary commercial, selling<br />
an ultra high tech device that<br />
enables you to listen to a conversation<br />
you are probably not<br />
privy to. I carefully said nothing<br />
inciteful; had plenty on my<br />
mind, though.<br />
A Bell telephone truck came<br />
on the scene. Someone climbed<br />
up a pole to a large centnil<br />
panel, where something or<br />
other was done. It seemed<br />
unlikely that Bell, under the<br />
circumstances, would send a<br />
linemanoutforsomethingtrivial.<br />
Later we learned that most<br />
of the phones in Oka were<br />
tapped. -<br />
Sitting watching the scene,<br />
listening, looking for clues to<br />
bring me to the truth of what<br />
was going on. A sense of going<br />
down endlessly on a gigantic<br />
roller coaster. The adrenalin<br />
rush of fear. Head tingling,<br />
fingers fumbling. Time for<br />
meditation.<br />
Slowly, deliberately, I took<br />
everything out of my big black<br />
bag. Makeup, brush, combs,<br />
bobby pins, books to read,<br />
books to write in, the flotsam<br />
and jetsam of women's purses.<br />
!turned it upside down, shaking<br />
at least a year's worth of<br />
crumbs of a variety of things.<br />
An officer watched my every<br />
move. Did he expect me to<br />
draw a gun?<br />
Meanwhile they thoroughly<br />
searched both vehicles. They<br />
scrutinized each of the 21 watermelons.<br />
The plastic bags<br />
filled with sandwiches were<br />
each opened and one or two of<br />
the sandwiches were even<br />
opened to inspect what was<br />
inside.<br />
An officer opened a little<br />
cloth purse filled with a green<br />
herb. It belonged to Nancy, <br />
who giggled when she was told<br />
she would be arrested if the<br />
purse contained an illegal<br />
·substance. It was sage, it turned<br />
out, and the purse was returned.<br />
When they were quite satisfied<br />
that we were not doing<br />
anything illegal, Mary was told<br />
to drive back to the next road<br />
where we could wait for the<br />
other vehicle.<br />
A telephone call to one of<br />
the residents of Oka and we<br />
were directed to the home of a<br />
couple just outside the reserve.<br />
For obvious reason I can't<br />
identify them further, even<br />
vaguely.<br />
A letter to Mary later assured<br />
us that the food was delivered<br />
"to who it may concern".<br />
Our impression was that<br />
deliveries by water were possible.<br />
Gracious hosts made<br />
coffee for all and patiently<br />
answered questions. They described<br />
the day they were<br />
stopped and their car thoroughly<br />
searched three times as<br />
they drove to some destination<br />
and not once did they need<br />
to go into the reserve. A couple<br />
with two teenaged boys, they<br />
defended passionately the actions<br />
of the Moh~wks. "I grew<br />
up with these guys. We went to<br />
school together. They are good<br />
people." Wherever we went<br />
we heard "It's<br />
about time ..."<br />
The red van<br />
transported ten<br />
of us back to<br />
Toronto that<br />
night... five<br />
women. Mary<br />
our leader, Rial,<br />
16. The vegan<br />
Lorraine, one<br />
lovingly called<br />
The Dreaded<br />
Old Nancy ...<br />
(My feelings<br />
and fond recollections<br />
of<br />
Nancy merit far<br />
more space than<br />
avallatiie here).<br />
And me-- a 55<br />
years old woman<br />
who finds<br />
herself a part of<br />
the most significant<br />
event in the<br />
history of Canada.<br />
The outside<br />
observers were now back in<br />
their countries and preparing<br />
damning reports about the<br />
treatment of natives by the<br />
idiotbureaucracy. I have had<br />
an opportunity to learn about<br />
people who for all my life I<br />
pictured as savages.<br />
In a broadcast during the<br />
first symbolic removing of the<br />
barricades (we all cheered<br />
thinking the standoff was<br />
over) Steven Lewis suggested<br />
_that Canada would never be<br />
the same ...
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market market<br />
The· Market· GOtirmet<br />
by Peigi T. Rockwell<br />
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What's Autumn without Pumpkin Pie?<br />
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During her 3 years as co-owner of the Kensington<br />
Gardens Restaurant, Joanne Harburn<br />
p.roduced 2 to 3 pies a day. That's over 2000<br />
pies, enough to make her a local expert on the fine art<br />
of pastry making.<br />
Although the restaurant is closed and Joanne says<br />
she doesn't want to make another pie for a while, you<br />
can still benefit from her expertise as a pastry chef<br />
and enjoy one of her Autumn classics in your own<br />
home by following her pie making tips.<br />
Her pastry recipe is good for savoury and sweet<br />
pies and can be frozen for up to 3 weeks. She suggests<br />
pastry cooks purchase some muslim cloth to roll out<br />
the dough on. To avoid having the dough stick to the<br />
rolling pin, she uses plastic wrap so the pin never actually<br />
comes into contact with the dough.<br />
Joanne's Whole Wheat Pastry Flour<br />
Make one day ahead<br />
Mix together: 6 1/3 cup whole wheat pastry<br />
flour<br />
1 1 /2 tsp. salt<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
3 tbsp brown sugar<br />
Add 2 cups shortening/lord/butter or a combination<br />
(Joanne prefers lard). Break into size of eggs. Place in<br />
refrigerator. · . ·<br />
When it is.chilled break the shortening down, using<br />
your finger, until half is the size of small peas and the<br />
other half is like cornmeal.<br />
In a measuring cup mix together: 1 egg and 1 tbsp<br />
vinegar.<br />
Add enough water to measure 3/4 cup.<br />
Sprinkle a little of the liquid on top of the dry<br />
ingredients (approximately 2 tbsp.) Mix fike you would<br />
a salad, reoc~ing to the bottom, bringing the dry<br />
ingredients to the top. Continue until all the liquid has<br />
been added. Gently squeeze into 2 or 3 balls.<br />
Sprinkle some flour on a smooth surface. Place a<br />
smooth, clean cloth on the surface (slightly larger than<br />
your pie plate). Sprinkle flour on the cloth. Place the<br />
ball on the cloth. Put a little flour on the boll. Place a<br />
piece of plastic wrap on top of the ball to ,<br />
prevent sticking. Start rolling from the<br />
centre out until you have the dough around,<br />
1" larger than your pie plate. Remove the<br />
plastic wrap. Place the pie plate upside<br />
down on the dough. Using'a sharp knife,<br />
cut around the pie plate adding an extra 1".<br />
Bring the four comers of the cloth together.<br />
Place your other hand under the cloth on the<br />
hollow part. Now flip it. Gently push the<br />
extra dough into the pie plate to fill in the<br />
hollow. You can make a fancy edge using<br />
your thumb and first finger of one hand and<br />
the first finger of the second hand.<br />
Place in the fridge orfreezer over night or<br />
up to three weeks.<br />
· 'Preheat oven to 450°. Bake the pie crust<br />
on the bottom shelf for 10 min. lower heat<br />
to 350°. Bake another 10 min. on the<br />
middle shelf.<br />
In the meantime, in a small dish, beat<br />
tOgether: 1 egg and 1 tbsp. water.<br />
Remove the pie crust after 20 min. With<br />
a brush (a clean paint brush is great) paint . _ . .<br />
on the egg mixture. If you have any holes, Pastry. Chef ~xtrodznare, Joanne Harbum IS seen holdzng the<br />
fill them with extra dough, then paint this secret zngredlents of her fabulous fall fare.<br />
with· the egg mixture as well. Place back in the oven for Cook until it is soft when poked.<br />
10 min. This will give the crust a nice glaze and will Scoop out the cooked squash/pumpkin.<br />
prevent it from getting soggy. Joanne does this to all of Beat together: 2 cups cooked squash I pumpkin,<br />
her pie crusts.<br />
3/4 cup brown sugar, and 1 tbsp flour.<br />
Add to above<br />
and mix: 1 3/4 cup milk<br />
. Pumpkin/ ·Squash Pie<br />
You can use butternut squash or butternut squash and<br />
pumpkin. Straight pumpkin is too watery.<br />
For a deep 1 0" pie pon, use 1 good size butternut<br />
squash or 1 small butternut squash and a pie pumpkin.<br />
Split in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds.<br />
Cook either in the microwave or oven. In a 350°<br />
oven, lightly grease a cookie sheet and place squash/<br />
pumpkin fcice down. For the microwave, place face<br />
down on a pyrex container and cover with plastic wrap.<br />
It's<br />
Pu·mpkin<br />
Time!<br />
1 1 I 4 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1 I 4 tsp allspice or doves<br />
. 1 /2 tsp ginger<br />
Add four eggs, one at a time, to the above mixture.<br />
Pour half of this mixture in the pie crust. Place pie<br />
crust and 1 /2 filling into the oven on the middle shelf.<br />
Continue adding the filling using measuring cups until<br />
filling is used up (this prevents filling from discolouring<br />
crust). Bake approximately 1 hour or until just about set<br />
in the middle. Tum off the oven. Leave in the oven and<br />
let sit for 30 min. then remove.<br />
Yes it's Pumpkin .Time!<br />
Small, sweet and tender for<br />
Thanksgiving pies or big.and<br />
tough for Hallowe'en Jacko~<br />
Lanterns - Kensington Market<br />
·is a pumpki~ seeker's<br />
happy hunting ground this<br />
month!
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Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 13<br />
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What's Cool for School<br />
Felice Scriver<br />
K<br />
ensington Market,:<br />
the great get-away<br />
from the predictable, expensive<br />
and boring mall.<br />
Here you can find people<br />
dressed in Amazing Creative<br />
Ways with a Personal<br />
Style.<br />
This fall is turning into<br />
a season of the. extremes;<br />
skirts are mini or maxi,<br />
sweaters are in all sizes.<br />
The three hottest trends<br />
this fall are funky hats,<br />
denim, velours & velvets.<br />
Any accessories of an<br />
ethnic origin are the best<br />
deal. So for back to school<br />
shopping, don't label<br />
yourself, go no name! Be<br />
original!<br />
special thanks to: Exile,<br />
Dancing Days, Noise, Get<br />
Dressed, Courage My Love,<br />
Kensington Outpost II,<br />
Alternatives, and Black<br />
Market.<br />
It's<br />
Harvest .. Time<br />
by Masha Buell<br />
Ever walked into<br />
yourfavourite Market<br />
market and asked for<br />
your friend, the owner, to<br />
then be told in hushed<br />
and reverent tones that<br />
he or she had "gone to<br />
the MARKET" or even<br />
"gone to the terminal"?<br />
Don't panic, they don't<br />
mean the big market_ in<br />
the sky. And they don't<br />
mean that Sam or Bobby<br />
or Lillian or Paul have<br />
decided to take a computer<br />
course. They're<br />
talking about the Ontario<br />
Food Terminal - that<br />
mythic market of markets<br />
somewhere in the depths<br />
of old Etobicoke.<br />
Next month in Market<br />
Market we'll take you for ..<br />
an inside look at the<br />
Market's market.<br />
Photos;<br />
Harvest time! Ontario's<br />
finest apples, pears,<br />
grapes, potatoes, beets,<br />
and cabbages are yours<br />
for the choosing. But how<br />
do they get to Kensington?<br />
Find out next month<br />
when DRUM visits the<br />
Ontario Food Terminal.<br />
FISH<br />
TERMINAL.<br />
SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING DIFFERENT<br />
The Seafood Supermarket for the<br />
Educated Shopper<br />
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Family Under Siege<br />
continued from pg 7<br />
saying" I live here" so I shouted<br />
his name out the winpow. He<br />
answered that it was okay over<br />
andover. I yelled what are you<br />
doing· to the police and they<br />
responded "it's okay."<br />
I jumped onto the floor and<br />
threw on a skirt, I then grabbed<br />
a shirt and on my way toward<br />
the stairs I tried to put it on.<br />
Before I got to the top of the<br />
stairs I saw the first officer<br />
standing half way up the stairs<br />
with a shotgun on his hip. I<br />
shouted, "what do you think<br />
you're doing? That's my son. I<br />
called you to report a shot<br />
outs~de." I reached the bottom<br />
of the stairs and there were<br />
two police officers coming out<br />
of my living room toward me.<br />
"What are you doing, are you<br />
crazy, get out of my house."<br />
I then stepped out the door<br />
and found my son on his knees<br />
on concrete with his hands•<br />
cuffed behind him and his forehead<br />
against the brick wall. A<br />
woman officer was standing<br />
behind him saying excuse me<br />
madame, over aqd over as if<br />
she was afraid I might be behaving<br />
unreasonably. "Don't<br />
talk to me." I said again and<br />
again. My son just kept saying<br />
"I'm okay Mom". I did call the<br />
police fascists and I did inquire<br />
as to when Ontario had<br />
brought in the S.Q.<br />
Needless to say it was all a<br />
mistake. When my son told me<br />
what happened it went like this.<br />
"I went to answer the door but<br />
when I opened it all I could see<br />
was silhouettes and the barrel<br />
of a shotgun pointed at my<br />
face. I thought the crack heads<br />
had gone crazy. I shut the door<br />
fast, I thought for a second and<br />
then I realized that they looked<br />
more like the police so I opened<br />
the door and put up my arms<br />
and said what's wrong?"' Who<br />
are you?" they said. "I live<br />
here." Then they pulled me<br />
outside and pushed me to my<br />
knees and handcuffed me. I<br />
was scared. That minute is<br />
embedded in my brain for ever.<br />
Then you came out {his<br />
mother} and were mad and I<br />
still didn't have any idea what<br />
was going on and I thought<br />
they would shoot me if anything<br />
you said made them mad<br />
so I said I'm okay."<br />
After my son was in the<br />
house I yelled at the police for<br />
a few seconds more and they<br />
left all in a huffbecause I didn't<br />
appreciate the job they had<br />
done to serve and protect my<br />
family and I. Tomorrow the<br />
pushers will be harassing us or<br />
beating us for calling the police.<br />
We sat around and talked<br />
for awhile and shook and<br />
thought about what would<br />
have happened if one of my<br />
little daughters had opened the<br />
door, or me. We tried to get rid<br />
of the feeling of being trapped,<br />
imprisoned. We called the<br />
police to find out why, and we<br />
calledCityT.V. totellthemwe<br />
were pissed and scared, My<br />
little girl came and said she .<br />
wants to move tomorrow and<br />
.that she and her little friend<br />
know where the dealers hide<br />
their drugs.<br />
Here is where the story gets<br />
bizarre. My other son comes<br />
running in the house with blood<br />
running down his arm from<br />
being attacked by some guy on<br />
the street with a razor. He has<br />
been hiding and running for<br />
two hours to try to get away<br />
from the guy who he does not<br />
know. I did not call the police.<br />
I do not drink or do drugs, I<br />
go to school as do my children.<br />
I don't bother anyone. Why<br />
then you might ask do I live<br />
here. Because, life is not about<br />
choosing your own destiny at<br />
all, as many of those who do<br />
not want to see reality or take<br />
actionmightsay.Lifc,formany<br />
people, is being stuck in a death<br />
trap/war ZOI!e because we are<br />
poor. In spite of what you may<br />
have been led to believe most<br />
of my neighbours are like me<br />
Is It Over At Oka?<br />
Consensus of the people at<br />
the Native Women's Resource<br />
Centre:<br />
Noit'snotover.Justbecause<br />
the Mohawk warriors laid ·<br />
down/ their guns, it doesn't<br />
mean it's over. There are<br />
people 'Who think this Oka<br />
crisis won't affect anyone; that<br />
we'll go on with life in a "normal"<br />
way. It's going to affect<br />
us all- white, black, red, and<br />
yellow skinned people-for a<br />
long time to come.<br />
It'slike a boil festering over.<br />
Kensington Common<br />
and they are also like you. If<br />
. youdon'tdosomethingtohelp<br />
us, this war will be on your<br />
door step and I won't be able<br />
to help you. I can't sleep and I<br />
am in despair. I can't rent<br />
outside of here. The fear is<br />
overwhelming. Ifl have to stay<br />
home to protect my children ,I<br />
will never get them out of here.<br />
After I got all of us settled in<br />
as much as possible , and we<br />
Once the infection spreads, it<br />
is hard to stop.<br />
If the federal and provincial<br />
governments continue to ignore<br />
aboriginal issues, incidents<br />
like Oka are bound to<br />
keep happening and the casualties<br />
will increase.<br />
For many generations the<br />
"dominant" society has tried<br />
to force their "colonial" attitude<br />
on the Native people of<br />
North America. This is not<br />
going to work anymore. We're<br />
tired of being put on the "backburner".<br />
The dominant society<br />
must understand that we<br />
are a unique society. Like ottJ.er<br />
ethnic races, we have our culture,<br />
our Native languages, our<br />
spirituality, and o.ur own way<br />
of life. We will not give all this<br />
up to fit in the white man's<br />
world.<br />
Golf courses are a reflection<br />
of the dominant society's attitude<br />
.that the earth is here for<br />
their recreation and pleasure.<br />
In contrast, theN alive perspective<br />
is that we are guardians of<br />
Leonard Lot; Hopes 'or<br />
housing - ~est with Council<br />
continued from pg 2<br />
<strong>Oct</strong>ober 4. By the time of the<br />
meeting, though, the plan had<br />
changed. What the group saw<br />
was drawings of a 14-story<br />
apartment building in the eastern<br />
shadow of the hospital.<br />
Two floors of retail, with 12<br />
residential above (and 520<br />
parking spaces going 5 levels<br />
down). This was, the group<br />
was answered, the "worst case<br />
scenario." But nothing else,<br />
we were told, was financially<br />
possible unless the hospital<br />
spends "health care dollars on<br />
parking spaces." (The idea<br />
that parking costs are not legitimate<br />
hospital expenses was<br />
questioned by the City Planner<br />
in attendance.)<br />
The building shown was so<br />
clearly unacceptable that there<br />
didn't seem to be any hopeful<br />
purpose in talking about housing<br />
with the hospital alone.<br />
But hospital staff agreed to<br />
ask a representative from the<br />
Parking Authority to come to<br />
the next group meeting. ·<br />
That meeting will be Wed-<br />
~esday . November 7 in the<br />
Bathurst Lounge in the hospital,<br />
at 6:30 pm. ·<br />
· Councillor A mer says she is<br />
satisfied with the hospital's<br />
current position and says that<br />
both she and her executive assistant<br />
Bruce Pearce will be<br />
attending the <strong>Oct</strong>ober 4 meeting.<br />
"It is important to understand<br />
that the hospital is just<br />
undertaking a feasibility study<br />
for the parking site," says<br />
Pearce, "they will only choose<br />
the type of housing with community<br />
approval."<br />
This view is reiterated by<br />
hospital board member and<br />
long-time Kensington resident<br />
David Pinkus.<br />
"Nothing will be done until<br />
it's vetted through our community,"<br />
he says. Pinkus recalls<br />
the 1950's when houses<br />
stood where the garage now is<br />
and Kozlov's grocery was on<br />
the corner of Leonard and Nassau.<br />
They were all destroyed<br />
when the garage was built.<br />
"To bring housing back to<br />
the corner of Leonard and<br />
Nassau will entail a long political<br />
process", says Pinkus. The<br />
area will have to be rezoned,<br />
public hearings held and in the<br />
end it will be up to City Coun-<br />
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cil whether housing should be<br />
built at all.<br />
"If it becomes an extended<br />
discussion," says Pinkus, "the<br />
community could risk losing<br />
the housing because this council<br />
will only be in office for, at<br />
most, another two, years."<br />
Pinkuis says the current council<br />
would probably be in favour<br />
of increasing affordable<br />
housing in the community.<br />
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Kensingt_on Common Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 15<br />
Our Lady of the Sewers<br />
A Kensington Shanghai Remebered<br />
Derek Rodgers<br />
Most people take no notice<br />
of the manhole at the corner of<br />
Kensington Ave and Baldwin<br />
Street, but to the residents of<br />
the Market it has the distinction<br />
of being known as "the<br />
sewer that Candi Looper<br />
climbed into".<br />
People come to Kensington<br />
Market for different reasons:<br />
toshop, to eat, to hangout, etc.<br />
Candi Looper came to shoot a<br />
music video. She had just written<br />
a deeply personal song with<br />
the hopes of toppling her arch<br />
rival Madonna in the charts.<br />
This song contained th·e heart<br />
wrenching line:-<br />
"There's a hole in my heart<br />
that goes all the way to China".<br />
In typical MTV fashion,<br />
Candi's music video consultant<br />
interpreted the lyrics literally<br />
and came up with the brilliant<br />
idea of actually having<br />
Candi climb into a hole in the<br />
Western hemisphere and climb<br />
out of one in China. Candi<br />
loved the concept but soon<br />
realized that her MTV -like<br />
vision, complete with smoky<br />
exteriors and smiling Chinamen<br />
and rickshaws, did not<br />
necessarily comply· with the<br />
real China. "No problem" she<br />
said, "we'll make our own<br />
China".<br />
Candi descended on Kensington<br />
Market with an army<br />
of Producers, Directors, music<br />
execs, carpenters, props<br />
people, scenic artists, camera<br />
&lighting technicians, 1st, 2nd,<br />
3rd & 4th assistant directors,<br />
location managers, production<br />
assistants, makeup artists, security<br />
guards, extras, grips,<br />
transport drivers, police officers<br />
and a personal chef who<br />
catered exclusively,to her pop<br />
stardom tastes, Baldwin street<br />
and Kensington Ave were<br />
promptly sealed off to both<br />
Market and non Market residents.<br />
When residents complained,<br />
they were told by the<br />
policemen manning the barricades<br />
that they would endanger<br />
the creative process if they<br />
walked through the set to their<br />
homes. They were reassured<br />
that if they waited patiently,<br />
the press secretary would come<br />
out and give them a 8x10 auto- .<br />
graphed photograph of Candi.<br />
Meanwhile, inside the barricades,<br />
imported rickshaws,<br />
smiling Asian actors dressed<br />
in costumes reminiscent ofthe<br />
"Kung Fu" TV series and lots<br />
of smoke and dry ice were<br />
transforming Baldwin street<br />
into Candi's make believe<br />
China.<br />
Everything was proceeding<br />
smoothly except for one small<br />
detail. The manhole that Candi<br />
was supposed to climb out of<br />
was giving her trouble. The<br />
hole was a real stinker. All<br />
sewers give off odours of one<br />
kind or another, but she was<br />
- completely ill prepared to<br />
combat the pungency of a<br />
Kensington Market sewer.<br />
Poor Candi, no-one had ever<br />
told her life as a pop star was<br />
going to be so difficult. The<br />
props people sprayed disinfectant<br />
and perfume to no avail.<br />
Candi 's dream of a MTV China<br />
was fading fast, but as she<br />
looked down into that deep,<br />
dark hole a tiny little voice in<br />
her head spoke out to her and<br />
said, "If Madonna was here,<br />
she would do it.;, Candi<br />
clenched her teeth, held her<br />
nose and climbed dowq into<br />
the hole.<br />
Take 1 went off almost without<br />
a hitch, but at the last<br />
moment one of the "Chinese"<br />
extras tripped and began<br />
· swearing in English. Take Z<br />
was a mis-slate. Take 3 didn't<br />
have enough smoke in the<br />
background. Take 4,5,6 & 7<br />
were focus pulling errors. Take<br />
9 was good butthe background<br />
smoke still wasn't good<br />
enough. Take lOw as also good<br />
but one of the music execs<br />
objected to the way Candi's<br />
hair looked. Take 11,12,13<br />
were action miscues. Take 14<br />
was ruined when someone<br />
behind the barricades yelled<br />
outto Candi, "Lookoutfor the<br />
Kensington Rats". Take 15, 16,<br />
17, were good but the Director<br />
wasn'tsure.Finally,Candi had<br />
had enough. When it was time<br />
for take 19 she blew her cool<br />
and let loose a barrage of insults<br />
towards the director that<br />
could be heard clear to Queen<br />
street. "Fuck Madonna" she<br />
screamed. "There's no way I<br />
am going back into that stink<br />
hole". Only after the producers<br />
promised to fire the Director<br />
and raise her profit margin<br />
did she concede to one final<br />
take.<br />
For the very last time Candi<br />
climbed down into the manhole,<br />
Take 99. The props assistant<br />
laid out the most beautiful<br />
layer of background smoke he<br />
had ever seen. The extras went<br />
to their first positions. The 1st<br />
that the level of sewage some<br />
10 feet below her was slowly<br />
and silently creeping upward.<br />
The time was 7:25PM and the<br />
dinner hou~ was coming to a<br />
close. In order to handle the<br />
daHy surge in the system, the<br />
city of Toronto's department<br />
of public works usually opened<br />
a series of relief tunnels and<br />
floodgates specially designed<br />
to accommodate the overflow. ·<br />
Unfortunately for Candi and<br />
all her fans a mechanical breakdown<br />
prevented the relief system<br />
from'kicking in, resulting<br />
in the creation of giga,ntic wave<br />
of sewage that swept through<br />
the network of sewers sucking<br />
Candi deep into the slimy and<br />
smelly innards of our "World<br />
Class" city. She was found days<br />
later in Scarborough, a<br />
changed person.<br />
and sat in the mouth<br />
of four in the morning.<br />
the cock crowed thrice<br />
of a dawn that was coming,<br />
but no sun fell<br />
on the newspaper face,<br />
of a Lazarus<br />
that wouldn't be raised.<br />
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Bloorcourt<br />
Veterinary<br />
Clinic<br />
1079 Bloor Street West<br />
(416) 537-9677<br />
Appointment Monday to Saturday , .<br />
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KEN51NbTON CATS<br />
~'ELECTION '90"<br />
assistant director cal~ed out lliiiii=o<br />
"roll camera and mustc playback".<br />
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The new Director called<br />
"action". Everything was just<br />
perfect. The camera started<br />
high in a wide shot, panned left<br />
and then swooped downward 1~._., .:.-:-·<br />
to where it was to intersect<br />
with Cani lifting o~f t~e man- oiA~ - I'<br />
hole cover and chmbmg out ~~ ~<br />
'<br />
while lip-syncing, "There's a<br />
holeinmyheartthatgoesall 1., ~ .. vo~...--c."'I!IJ>.._-;;;......::=wcr"'"""l',..., 1<br />
thewaytoChina". When the f, ~--. ____ ·---.. ···. --·- , --- ---<br />
camera reached tfie manhole,<br />
there was no ~ign of Candi. At<br />
first, the producers thought it<br />
was a cruel joke. Candi's way<br />
of saying "don'tmess with me",<br />
but when they opened up the<br />
manhole and she was nowhere<br />
to be found. they began to<br />
panic. "Our insurance won't<br />
cover this" moaned one. "The<br />
press is going to have a field<br />
day" moaned another. "Oh<br />
god, maybe she's dead!"<br />
moaned a third.<br />
Candi Looper wasn't dead.<br />
While she had been waiting in<br />
the dark and smelly confines<br />
of the manhole for her action<br />
cue, she had failed to notice _,.....- ~ I )t- r --?"'?' ~~ l s: II I<br />
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Commqnity & Arts<br />
_. ·)<br />
Rae· ·or Sunsign<br />
Robin Armstrong's Predictions<br />
BOB RAE 1991<br />
Bob Rae is a Leo with a<br />
Cancer Moon. This reveals a<br />
very personable guy. He is<br />
playful and proud. Generally<br />
noble at heart and very sensitive.<br />
He does have a psychic<br />
sensitivity. He will be receptive<br />
to the sincere needs of<br />
others. He is a born leader<br />
who will maintain a strong<br />
control over his party. He will<br />
champion education and<br />
domestic security (food, shelter,<br />
and work for the needy).<br />
His weak spot is that he<br />
is vulnerable to poor timing<br />
and great expectations. He is a<br />
very dedicated man but is<br />
subject to expecting too much<br />
of his followers. With Jupiter<br />
in Leo this year he will lead<br />
with grandeur and wisdom.<br />
The main problem is that<br />
many grass roots c-oncerns<br />
have great expectations of him.<br />
He will probably run into difficulties<br />
within his own party.<br />
The question becomes "Is the<br />
NDP a union party, or is it a<br />
party for people who don't<br />
belong to a union?" It looks<br />
like there will be shocks to<br />
union members who expect a<br />
hard line. The growing recession,<br />
strikes, layoffs and unemployment<br />
will create unexpected<br />
turmoil for Bob Rae.<br />
Sooner or later he will have to<br />
decide on what is the most<br />
important need. At that point<br />
will he maintain the same loyalty<br />
from his supporters?<br />
His first big test of stability<br />
will come in the last two<br />
weeks of December <strong>1990</strong> and<br />
the first two weeks of January<br />
1991, just when the GST is<br />
scheduled to go into effect.<br />
This is also a big time for international<br />
stability and the cost<br />
of oil and gas could just keep<br />
rising.<br />
The second big test or<br />
shock will come in September<br />
1991. This is another time when<br />
Rae's plans could be.radically<br />
changed. This will mark the<br />
end of the honeymoon for Rae.<br />
He will have to let go and adjust<br />
to the demands of necessity.<br />
By February 1992, Bob<br />
Rae will be a very serious and<br />
overworked man. He will run<br />
into limitations and delays at<br />
every turn. He will have to<br />
adjust at this time and realize<br />
that he cannot do everything.<br />
Circumstances will require<br />
Rae to cut back on many activities<br />
which he feels are important.<br />
The hard work will<br />
begin here.<br />
ROSARIO<br />
MARCHESE 1991:<br />
Rosario Marchese is a Taurus<br />
with a Scorpio Moon. Any<br />
way you cut it this means a<br />
fairly determined or should I<br />
say stubborn person. It may<br />
take him a while to decide what<br />
he wants to do but once he has<br />
decided he will not quit. He is<br />
nt a person who can be told<br />
what to do. He is a survivor.<br />
He is highly competitive and<br />
has very good business instincts.<br />
He ill react well to pressure<br />
and is capable of championing<br />
a good cause. This man<br />
is an excellent fund raiser and<br />
knows what is needed to make<br />
money. As a friend and family<br />
man he is deeply committed<br />
and charming. Rosario is not a<br />
quitter, He ·will fight when he<br />
has to. At times he thinks too<br />
fast and gets ahead of himself.<br />
If he keeps a simple course for<br />
himself and avoids making too<br />
many promises his political<br />
career will develop comfortably.<br />
One interesting insight<br />
about Marchese, is that he will<br />
respond when he has to, and<br />
often that will be when he is<br />
. confronted by a real concern<br />
and forced to take action.<br />
His first year in office<br />
will be quite confronting. He<br />
will run up against obstructions<br />
and adversaies but he will<br />
-endure. This is not a man who<br />
will surrender. He does like his<br />
comforts but he will work hard<br />
to protect them. If you want<br />
something addressed you must<br />
let him know specifically and<br />
emphatically.<br />
He does have a certain<br />
degree of charm and style and<br />
should be quitepopular. His<br />
firstrealtestofpowerwillcome<br />
in the last two weeks of De'<br />
cember <strong>1990</strong>and the first week<br />
of Janu(!ry. This will be when<br />
the GST is sposed to be implemented.<br />
He will not get something<br />
he wants. This will cause<br />
some serious thinking on his<br />
part but he will endure.<br />
His second test of power<br />
will be_ in April when he once<br />
again finds himselfblocked and<br />
confronted.<br />
His thi~d confrontation<br />
will come by the end of <strong>Oct</strong>ober<br />
1991. After this period life<br />
will become much smoother<br />
for Marchese and the obstructions<br />
will start to lift. So my<br />
conclusion is that he will not<br />
be ale to do' too much until<br />
after <strong>Oct</strong>ober 1991. Mark the<br />
first year down to experience.<br />
Usually when a Taurus does<br />
not get what he wants he can<br />
be ferocious.<br />
Concluded next page<br />
Screenplay readings at the Euclid:<br />
Insights into film world a short walk away<br />
As the Canadian Film industry<br />
has grown over the last<br />
few years, so has the nu'mber<br />
of people involved iri it. What<br />
had previously been an industry<br />
primarily run for American<br />
productions, looking for<br />
tax relief and lower shooting<br />
costs has now become an industry<br />
for Canadian film makers.<br />
With that came the need for<br />
bursaries and sponsors. A<br />
number ofthese have emerged,<br />
but the most innovative is the<br />
Toronto Screenwriters forum,<br />
an organization dedicated to<br />
promoting appreciation of the<br />
art of screenwriting. Founded<br />
in <strong>Oct</strong>ober 1988, the -forum<br />
now presents readings, usually<br />
once a month, at the old Euclid<br />
theatre at Euclid and College<br />
to an audience of approximately<br />
a hundred.<br />
Each presentation consists<br />
of professional actors sitting in<br />
a semicircle on stage reading<br />
out their lines from the script.<br />
In addition a narrator is present<br />
to read out the screenplay's<br />
· descriptive passages. Although<br />
this arrangement may seem at<br />
first glance dubious, the end<br />
result works. The-power of a<br />
play cannot be achieved: the<br />
actors, seated, and reading<br />
from the script prevents that.<br />
But the use of spotlights, music,<br />
and sound effects makes<br />
up for it.<br />
Nevertheless, the rigours of<br />
a two-hourreading cause some<br />
audience members to squirm<br />
in the\r seats-a shortcoming<br />
which might have had something<br />
to do with the quality of<br />
the material chosen the night I<br />
attended (August 21).<br />
Opening the Forum to more·<br />
writers might mean always<br />
being sure of quality material,<br />
but it could also lead to the<br />
group being swamped with<br />
manuscripts, especially since<br />
audiences include important<br />
Canadian film makers such as<br />
John Board (The Fly), Rob<br />
Burton (one of the founders of<br />
the network YTV), Carlos<br />
Liconti (Brown Bread Sandwiches)<br />
and Patricia Rozema<br />
(I've Heard the Mermaids<br />
Singing).<br />
Interest in the presentations<br />
comes from others as well. The<br />
programreceivesfundingfrom<br />
sources such as Norman<br />
Jewison's Canadian Centre for<br />
Advanced Film Studies, and<br />
Telefilm Canada. It's also<br />
sponsored by Alliance Productions<br />
and others. The Forum<br />
has also been covered for<br />
CityTV's MovieTelevision.<br />
The exposure is definitely<br />
deserved, because exposure is<br />
what the forum offers to others.<br />
As mentioned, the quality<br />
of an individual evening depends<br />
rather heavily on the<br />
quality of the script_ that night.<br />
Nevertheless the intentions are<br />
honourable and the achievement<br />
is noteworthy. The look<br />
into screenwriting is fascinating<br />
enough to make the experience,<br />
irrespective of script,<br />
worthwhile.<br />
Attendance is ten dollars.<br />
However attendees can join<br />
the Forum instead, at a cost of<br />
$100. Not only does this perc<br />
mit free admittance to the<br />
readings, it also provides the<br />
chance to attend film premieres<br />
presented in conjunc-<br />
- tion with the program.<br />
The next performance is<br />
<strong>Oct</strong>ober 18. Anyone interested<br />
in attending should contact<br />
Lois Boyd at 360-5501.<br />
Street Theatre with an Industrial Bent,or machinations in the market<br />
Major Wager Delays Drum<br />
by Colin Puffer<br />
Market residents awoke<br />
Saturday morning to find part<br />
of the Baldwin Street geography<br />
had vanfshed. The Zoom<br />
Boom, that piece of very heavy<br />
equipment that had graced<br />
Baldwin for months; had gone.<br />
The Boom's demise started<br />
simply enough. At about 8p.m.<br />
Friday, September 28, police<br />
were performing one of their,<br />
recently, very frequent ticketing<br />
rituals on the streets. When<br />
passing The Greeks, where a<br />
group of clients were cheering<br />
on the police efforts, one public-minded<br />
patron suggested<br />
that simply ticketing a few<br />
trucks was a half-hearted<br />
measure. The Zoom Boom had<br />
squatted in immunity for<br />
months. Why not remove it?<br />
To Serve and Protect<br />
The two officers were at first<br />
baffled by the suggestion. It<br />
took a few pensive strolls up<br />
and down Baldwin, doing a<br />
Laurel and Hardy impersonation<br />
according to Irene, before<br />
deciding on a course of action.<br />
Headquarters was consulted<br />
and a green light given. The<br />
Zoom Boom was to be towed.<br />
Technical Glitches<br />
Towing a machine that is<br />
roughly the size of the Sky<br />
Dome is no easy task. The first<br />
tow truck to arrive on the scene<br />
was pathetically small. The<br />
driver took one look at the<br />
Zoom Boom and called for<br />
reinforcements. The grandmother<br />
of tow trucks cruised<br />
down Baldwin.<br />
All this excitement drew<br />
quite a crowd. And as usual,<br />
the media descended in hordes.<br />
Always first to be at the scene<br />
of fast-breaking news (within<br />
COLLEGE<br />
B 0 0 KS<br />
a three or four-block area), the<br />
Drum's news team arrived to<br />
swell the already large asssembly.<br />
It was here the heavy betting<br />
began.<br />
Dragon Faceoff<br />
Like a Brontosaurus and ·<br />
Stegasaurus facing each other,<br />
the two mechanosaurians<br />
faced off. Would the forks<br />
come off the Zoom Boom so<br />
the tow truck could get a grip?<br />
Would the cables on the tow<br />
truck'swinchsnapwhenittried<br />
to lift the Boom? Could the<br />
parking brake be released?<br />
The Drum staff be ton all these<br />
possibilities.<br />
And ultimately, cheering for<br />
the underdog (or undercat) as<br />
usual, Drummers bet all their<br />
beer money on Zoom Boom<br />
winning this epic confrontation.<br />
When the big blue dragon<br />
emerged victorious and towed<br />
away a limping loser, all<br />
Drum's production funds were<br />
lost.<br />
Why Tonight?<br />
"Why tonight?", was what<br />
Irene wanted to know. The<br />
Zoom Boom had sat there for<br />
months. If the police were<br />
really worried about the obstruction,<br />
why hadn't they telephoned<br />
the owner two months<br />
earlier?<br />
Someone else wondered if<br />
the trucks would come back at<br />
3 a.m. and start towing cars<br />
parked on upper Kensington.<br />
What about the expense of<br />
the towing job? There was at<br />
one point a total of nine workers<br />
involved in the removal of<br />
the Zoom Boom.<br />
But then I suppose it could<br />
all be looked at as the city's<br />
contribution to the sponsorship<br />
of the arts. Street theatre<br />
at its best. Live in The Market.<br />
•Course Books<br />
•Academic lilies in Philosophy, Anthropology, History,<br />
Linguistics, Feminist Studies, Politics<br />
•General Interest/Reference<br />
•Fiction<br />
• Magazines/Journals<br />
•Large Selection of Sale Books<br />
& Remainders - Academic & General<br />
•Special Orders Taken<br />
Hours: ~<br />
Monday to Friday: 9:30 - 6:30<br />
Saturday: 11.· 5:30 Sunday-: 12 • 4<br />
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321 College, South Side, just 1 block west of Spadina<br />
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DATES TO WATCH<br />
Mondays: at Cecil Community<br />
Centre, Toy Library. 10-<br />
1:30 am.<br />
At Cecil Community Centre.<br />
·Community Drop-in Night.<br />
Toy Library,movie,ping-pong,<br />
billiards and games. 6-10 pm.<br />
Wednesdays: at Cecil Community<br />
Centre, Toy Library.<br />
10-11:30 am.<br />
Sanderson Library. Disney<br />
Family Films. 7 pm. Free.<br />
Thursdays: at Sanderson Library.<br />
Babysitting course for<br />
young people 11 yrs and up.<br />
Certificate offered by St John<br />
Ambulance. Please register. 4<br />
pm. Free.<br />
Fridays: at Sanderson Library<br />
- Tales for Twos. Stories<br />
and songs for children 18-36<br />
months old. 10:45am. Please<br />
register.<br />
Mon - Fri. Art Exhibition:<br />
"between and," by Albert? Ka<br />
Hing Liu, at Northrop Frye<br />
Hall (73 Queen's Park Cres.),<br />
Victoria College. Reception<br />
Mon. Sept. 24/90, 4:30-6:30pm.<br />
NFH hours, M-TH, 9-9; FR, 9-<br />
6; closed weekends. UNTIL<br />
OCT12.<br />
Tues. & Thurs. early morning<br />
swim program at Scadding<br />
Court Community Centre 7:30<br />
am - 9 am. for in call Roberta<br />
Boardman or Mari Creal at<br />
363-5392.<br />
Tues. & Thurs. community<br />
steel band workshopand performance<br />
group: "Snap Pans"<br />
3:30-Spm for 10-14 yrs, 6-8 pm<br />
adults and teens. call363-5392<br />
for info/<br />
Tues., Thurs., Sun. 6:30 pm.<br />
New Intelligance Series continues<br />
(Jan Cox). call762-6056<br />
for info.<br />
First Thurs ( 6-8pm) and third<br />
Thurs. (8-10pm). Ontario Bisexual<br />
Network. Support and<br />
an open forum for the discussion<br />
of topics relevant to bisexual<br />
men and women.<br />
Women's Lives: No New<br />
Abortion Law. 1 pm Queen"s<br />
Park. contact Ontario Coalition<br />
for Abortion Clinics 969-<br />
8463. Translation for hearing<br />
impaired, attendant care, and<br />
trans. available.<br />
Sun. <strong>Oct</strong> 14. INTERCEDE<br />
general membership meeting<br />
2:30 pm. information, education<br />
and legal clinic for people<br />
working in Canada as foreign<br />
domestics.<br />
<strong>Oct</strong> 15-20 National AIDS<br />
Awareness Week. Scadding<br />
Court is offering talks, films,<br />
workshops and discussions for<br />
people of all ages. Call Peter<br />
363-5392.<br />
Mon. <strong>Oct</strong> 15. Sam - 9:30pm.<br />
"Counterstrike" (tvseries)will<br />
be shooting on Kensington<br />
A venue. Trucks will be parked<br />
on St. Andrew St. And on<br />
Spadina. concerns or inquiries<br />
to 259-76-84 Manny Danelon.<br />
Tues. · <strong>Oct</strong> 16. local band<br />
SUNFORCE, and FRESH<br />
WATER DRUM plays for<br />
Global Survival at Sneaky<br />
Dees. see article on pg 17<br />
In the Stars for the<br />
NDP (contfrom pg 16)<br />
Marchese will have a<br />
stressful but productive relationship<br />
with Bob Rae. This is<br />
good for getting things done<br />
but it might take a year before<br />
a realistic sense of priorities<br />
sets in. Marchese as with other<br />
NDPers might be expecting too<br />
much too fast and he may not<br />
be able to help as much as he<br />
would like to. Both men seem<br />
to have a major adjustment or<br />
crisis looming by the new year.<br />
So · does our country which<br />
seems to have several years of<br />
recession ahead.<br />
<strong>Oct</strong>16,17,18.SYNKProductions<br />
and C.I.U.T. prsents a<br />
benefit in support of AIDS<br />
awareness. 3 nights at 3 bars.<br />
See the ad on pg 19. donation<br />
$5 suggested<br />
Thurs. <strong>Oct</strong> 25. Chinese<br />
Movie (in Mandarin) at Sanderson<br />
Library. Free. 6:30pm<br />
Fri. <strong>Oct</strong> 26. Annual Members<br />
Night at Scadding Court<br />
Community Centre. 6-7:30pm<br />
followed by The Great SO's &<br />
60's Dance at 8 pm. Dance the<br />
night away, food, refreshments<br />
(special occasion permit) $3.<br />
Sat. <strong>Oct</strong>27. Scadding Court's<br />
Scary Annual Hallowe'en<br />
Party 12 noon-2 pm. For children<br />
up to 12 years. Parents<br />
welcome. Free.<br />
Sat. <strong>Oct</strong>. 27. It's Not<br />
Garbage ... So Let's Not Waste<br />
It Anymore. A one day· conference<br />
on opportunities for<br />
local action. Algonquin Island<br />
Clubhouse. $25 ($15 for seniors,<br />
students and unemployed.)<br />
call 960-2284 for info<br />
and registration form.<br />
Wed. <strong>Oct</strong> 31. Hallowe'en.<br />
Trick or Treat! Have a safe<br />
and happy time. DRUM.<br />
Toronto<br />
Disarmament<br />
Network<br />
No Time to Waste<br />
Odober 20th<br />
On <strong>Oct</strong>ober 20th the TDN<br />
and Greenpeace will be holding<br />
a rally for Peace and the<br />
Environment. This rally will<br />
beginat12noonandwillmarch<br />
from Qu~ens Park at roughly<br />
1 pm. It w1ll proceed along Col<br />
lege to Young, then south on<br />
ROBIN ARMSTRONG<br />
one of Canada's foremost as~<br />
trologers is well known for his<br />
radio and television appearances<br />
across Canada and the<br />
Goings on at the Greeks: USA. He is author of "Robin · Yonge to Queen where it will<br />
(and not necessarily in this Armstrong's Astrological proceed to Grange Park (loorder)<br />
Bob Snider, AI Almanac 1991". He lives cated on Beverly south of<br />
Cromwell, Mike, The Virgins, works and teaches in the Ken~ Dundas), where an Environ<br />
Bryan Way, Jim. the Cow~oy,<br />
Steve Hall/Imagme, A Tno of<br />
singto~ area. For more information<br />
send a self-addressed<br />
men~al f~ir will ta~eylace.<br />
Pnmanly the Falf 1s to act as<br />
Punk Rockers, Not Bill Not and stamped envelope to PO a forum. from whi.ch local<br />
Bob. Interested? call597 -8771 Box 5265 Stn. A, Toronto Ont. commumty groups wlll be able<br />
Sat. <strong>Oct</strong> 13. Marching for M5W 1N5. to present themselves to the<br />
...-----------------------, public. There will be a main<br />
BENEFIT<br />
IN SUPPORT OF<br />
AIDS<br />
AWARENESS<br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**~~<br />
SYNK PRODUCTIONS & C.tU.T.<br />
presents<br />
~<br />
TUB. Ocr 16,<br />
HORSESHOE,<br />
368 Queen St. West<br />
Molly Johnson,<br />
David Ramsden<br />
and The Consequences,<br />
Miles Roberts of Sisters of Chang,<br />
and special guests<br />
ADMISSION BY<br />
DONATION<br />
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REQUESTED<br />
PROCEEDS FOR:<br />
BLACK C.A.P.~·<br />
FIFE HOUSE<br />
• 0 •<br />
TORONTOPWA<br />
FOUNDATION.<br />
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WED.OCT 17,<br />
CAMERON,<br />
408 Queen St. West<br />
Tami Blazer Band,<br />
Pamela Betts w/ David Restevo,<br />
Paul Hundert,<br />
Sharron McLeod w/ Wayne Cass,<br />
Kurt Swingha.mmer,<br />
COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT<br />
THURS. O
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PRISES:<br />
$0.30 A PIEC., cheaper by the dozen.<br />
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A Conference for Parents:<br />
We Have a Say in<br />
Our Children's Education<br />
~ c'¥:1 "Jo by Masha Buell<br />
.. =.=.<br />
Plans are underway for a<br />
conference to be held in April<br />
.. ~ - ~n~ .. .. = ~~r•~--~·-~-~-~ ... ~1 i?J~~a~~J~~~~~~t~~:~a~;<br />
>--=""'41VI parents will attend -- this is an<br />
opportunity to contribute actively<br />
in making public education<br />
as good as it can be. The<br />
conference will be held on a<br />
Sunday, to enable maximum<br />
~,-~"-'"'"r-=LL~~~,!._ ~~.,..,-,u..-m....;l~t participation.<br />
11\IJ 111•s 1t)QI A parent interest survey has<br />
been circulated by the Board<br />
IJ'"' '<br />
to help plan the topics the<br />
conference will address. They<br />
I, 1 ~ 1 , 1 I want to ~now how interested<br />
1<br />
we are m (here's a sample)<br />
"Alternative Education, Anti<br />
Racist Education, Assessing<br />
Student Performance, Computers<br />
in Education .... Drug<br />
Use in Schools, Education for<br />
gifted students ..., Environmental<br />
Education, French Immersion<br />
programs ... Sexism in<br />
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Kensin!!ton Pictorial<br />
•••••••••••••••••<br />
Drum Sports<br />
When the Game was Lacrosse:<br />
by Nelson Melo<br />
A North American gaQte<br />
resembling hockey, but the ball<br />
is driven and caught with a<br />
crosse. Basically the crosse resembles<br />
a hockey stick except<br />
it has a long shank curved<br />
round at the end with a net<br />
from the curve to the shank.<br />
This original aboriginal sport .<br />
has been popular in both<br />
The early days of the Lacrosse team, around 1969.<br />
Kensington Market and Alexandra<br />
Park. Since the 1960's<br />
the St. Christopher House<br />
Lacrosse team has represented<br />
the area in a province wide<br />
community league.<br />
One of the main organizers<br />
of the team was Bob Ellis, director<br />
of Neighbourhood<br />
House. Bob started with the<br />
program in the early 70's. Back<br />
then the Lacrosse programme<br />
was made up of house league<br />
teams including Novices, Peewees,<br />
Bantams, Midget and<br />
Juvenile teams.<br />
The Lacrosse team allowed<br />
all different ethnic groups to<br />
mingle. The kids learned to<br />
adapt and communicate effectively,<br />
brought together . by<br />
teamwork and mutual respect<br />
for everybody's abilities.<br />
During the 70's the St. Christopher<br />
House Lacrosse teams<br />
were recognized as being<br />
among the best in Southern<br />
Ontario. "Back then in it's<br />
glory days the team represented<br />
the ethnic or racial<br />
mixture of Kensington and<br />
Alexandra Park", recalls Paul ·<br />
Rebelo, a Kensington resident<br />
since childhood.<br />
Paul remembers those days<br />
as a time of meeting new<br />
friends -- a period of enjoyment<br />
for the inner city youth.<br />
It kept the kids away from mis-<br />
.---------------------. chief. Bob Ellis and Gary<br />
Martin were great role models<br />
for those boys. Paul said "Mr<br />
BMC<br />
Ellis was son-of like a father:<br />
Everything he said had two<br />
meanings. And he let you make<br />
BLUE MOUNTAIN CONSULTING<br />
up your mind as to what the<br />
meanings represented."<br />
Paul went on to play Major<br />
D.L. (Don) Orr, CCP, COP<br />
Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 19<br />
The 1977 C.N.E.Novice Lacrosse Tournament: (back row from<br />
left) coach Bob Ellis, Bruce Bell, Joe Dimitri, Lance Winn,<br />
Wayne Morrel, Wayne Shears, trainer Morris Cleverdon; (front<br />
row) Fernando Cabral, Dino Pepe, John Vieria, Sherman<br />
Middleton Jr., Abreu, Pauli Gillis, John Tavares.<br />
"A" Lacrosse for the Scarborough<br />
Saints. Today he supports<br />
the local team with financial<br />
contributions and volunteer<br />
work -- just giving back some<br />
of what he received from the<br />
experience.<br />
The currentteam is handled<br />
by Gary Martin and Danny<br />
Atkinson who have volunteered<br />
their services to the<br />
Alexandra Park West-Metro<br />
Lacrosse Association. They<br />
welcome all kids into the programme.<br />
Scadding Court also<br />
has house league Lacrosse<br />
after school.<br />
It's a great idea - bringing<br />
together a diverse group of kids<br />
with a positive activity. It can<br />
only contribute to a healthy<br />
neighbourhood.<br />
The team heads back to the old St. Christopher House in the<br />
Market after practice -1978.<br />
SENIOR CONSULTANT [ ' * DRUM HUM* COMMUNITY ADS* . I<br />
Suite 208, 253 College Street,<br />
Woodwork, Cabinetry &<br />
Interiors. Furniture repaired<br />
and refinished. By<br />
commission only. Competitive<br />
rates.<br />
Call 593-9279<br />
Toronto Ontario<br />
M5T 1R5<br />
Handmade<br />
Wearable Art<br />
for the<br />
Neck, Heart,<br />
and· Ear<br />
for viewing, call<br />
367-8600<br />
continued from page 20<br />
03 Wanted<br />
• Used IBM compatible computers<br />
or laptops. call Brian<br />
977-0192<br />
• Topsoil or clean earth. Phone<br />
595-5786.<br />
05 Help Wanted<br />
• Tired of armchair activism?<br />
Join the Greenpeace door to ·<br />
door canvass team. Salary<br />
$235-$350/week. Call ·Alma,<br />
351-0430.<br />
• ROUTE SALES. Necessity<br />
products company seeking 20<br />
individuals *motivated *sales<br />
experience *vehicle an asset<br />
*good communication skills.<br />
Establish route, maintain and<br />
increase clients on that route.<br />
Great commission, possible<br />
partnership. Mr. Michaels,862-<br />
8185, ext. 20.<br />
• HOME PARTIES. Hosiery,<br />
perfume, lingerie. Fine<br />
products priced to sell. Commission,<br />
bonuses. 1 hr=+$50.<br />
2nd language definit~ asset. call ·<br />
862-8185 ext 05.<br />
• DIS T RIB UT 0 R S<br />
WANTED. Perfume, lingerie,<br />
hosiery.Multi-level marketing<br />
system. Low ticket item. (::all<br />
• WILDWOOD DESIGN.<br />
cabinetry, interiors, woodwork,<br />
Furniture repaired and<br />
refinished. Competitive rates.<br />
593-9279.<br />
• You call, We Haul.<br />
NET ... WORK. (no frills, no<br />
spills)-Anywhere in Metro or<br />
the GTA. 925-6800. 24 hrs.,<br />
best rates.<br />
• Inexpensive book shelves:<br />
(416} 235-9959<br />
Desperate. Sick of milk crates. -<br />
Anytime<br />
599-8101.<br />
862-8185 ext 09. 01 Lost<br />
• Highchair for 6 month old. • . SEEKING SELF-EM-<br />
PLOYMENT? Full/ part-time. · . • BLACK KITTEN 4 months<br />
1---------------------• sooner Willing the to better. trade or 531-4017 buy. The Perfume, lingerie hosiery. old. call 977-8685 or bring to<br />
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Qualityproductspticed to sell. A12B Spadina Ave. (3rd flr)<br />
04 ChDdcare<br />
$50-$500 week. Commission+<br />
Wildwood<br />
• SNOWFLAKE<br />
bonuses, reviews. We'il train. 08 Pets<br />
CHILD~ '<br />
CARE CENTRE has spaces 862-8185 ext 11. • Kittens - 8 months old,<br />
Design<br />
available. Carr Street. See the • TORONTO DISARMA- brother aQd sister, ha:If- Siaad.<br />
on page 18.<br />
MENT NETWORK and mese.Shouldgoasapair. Used<br />
• BABYSITTING AVAIL GREENPEACE need VOL- to small children. Free tore<br />
ABLE in loving home. Downtown.<br />
Call581-1500 Jackie. the "NO TIME TO WASTE"<br />
UNTEERS to help out with sponsible home. call977-0192<br />
rally pn <strong>Oct</strong> 20. Call Steve 09 Personal<br />
Smith at TON 535~8673 • Happy Birthday Maisela! We<br />
06 H I H d love you. DRUM.<br />
e P at an<br />
• Help Available. Young stu-<br />
·dent available for odd jobs +<br />
babysitting. Has CPR and babysitting<br />
course. Evenings.<br />
979-2022. Call Shawn.<br />
• Cleaning at its best! (or other<br />
dirty jobs) Terri and Mike 340-<br />
6312<br />
• J .J. Carpet Cleaning. low<br />
prices available for office, com-.<br />
mercial call593-5122.<br />
• Happy belated birthday's<br />
Shannonbrooke and Kev4J.<br />
10 Births<br />
• MILLIGAN, Rose and<br />
Terry, of Baldwin Street Bakery,<br />
a boy -Clarence- born<br />
July 18 and doing very well!<br />
• KORTSCHAK. For Laurie<br />
and Ernie, a son, and for Eric,<br />
a brother. Collin Stewart<br />
weighed in at 6lbs 15112oz. on<br />
<strong>Oct</strong> 1, and all are doing well.
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I DRUM HUM * COMMUNITY ADS I<br />
00 For Rent or Sale<br />
• BUSINESS FOR SALE:<br />
Prime Baldwin Street location.<br />
Has definite possibilities.<br />
Arthur Babral530-10809 (bus)<br />
276-2546 (res)<br />
• House for Sale-Portuguese<br />
Area - Victorian Style semi<br />
-2 apartment units-rented<br />
to good tenants-double brick<br />
garage - contact Montreal<br />
Trust-ask for Donna Keenoy<br />
or George Bronet - Asking<br />
Price $249 ,000/best offer<br />
• For Rent September. Don<br />
Gosling Bungalow. St. Clair<br />
- Dufferin. 1 bedroom under<br />
new renovation. Parking. $720<br />
+ util. 922-8749.<br />
• Store on Augusta ($1,700)<br />
and 4 bedroom apartment<br />
($1,250 +hydro) 977-3774 ask<br />
for Mr. Ho.<br />
• On DUNDAS, newly renovated<br />
2 bedrm. sunroom,<br />
kitchen at bath. utilities included,<br />
parking available.<br />
$1,100. 593-8885. Gordon.<br />
• Shared female residence. 4<br />
brs.- 2 baths-family rm with<br />
fireplace. Large living rm,<br />
dining rm, modern kitchen,<br />
yard parking. $425/mo. 502-<br />
2222.<br />
• Beaches. Modern 2 br. apt.<br />
living, dining rm, hardwood.<br />
Eat-in kitchen, yard, parking,<br />
laundry, $1025/mo. 699-6555.<br />
• Available Nov. l. Don Mills/<br />
McNicol, 4 bdrm home, 2<br />
baths, living rm, dining rm,<br />
family place with fire place.<br />
Patio doors to yard, garbage,<br />
parking, TTC $1350/mo. +<br />
utils. 699-6555, 502-2222.<br />
01 Space Wanted<br />
• Workshop space needed for<br />
cabinetmaker. Call593-9279.<br />
• Parking space for small car.<br />
Will pay small money. Pnone<br />
595-5786<br />
• Covered Garage Space<br />
needed in Kensington/Spadina<br />
area for orie car. Immediately.<br />
Nick 971-9212.<br />
02 StuH for Sale<br />
•1968 Ford Mustang,3 Speed,<br />
No rust, good ·condition, asking<br />
. price $4,500. 960-5302<br />
(day), 245-4628 (eve).<br />
• Toothbrushes for Sale!! Very .<br />
good quality, low prices, need<br />
active agent to liquidate stock<br />
-commission. 960-5302 (day)<br />
245-4628 (eve). Ask for Johan ..<br />
more Drum Hum Pg 19<br />
Animal Health Day • Wed. <strong>Oct</strong>. 17<br />
Kensington Kats Collin Puffer<br />
I was recently informed that<br />
a fish is the official mascot of<br />
KensingtonKarnival. True the<br />
fish is a valid symbol of certain<br />
aspects of market life:. Certainly,<br />
a head count would<br />
prove that fish far outnumber<br />
cats in Kensington. And the<br />
fish generates far more income<br />
than the cat. At least I would<br />
hope that the number of fish<br />
sold over the counter far outstrips<br />
the number of cats winding<br />
up on the 'que.<br />
CATS vs. FISH<br />
But fish are undeniably uncuddly.<br />
I'd far rather a cat than<br />
a tuna lie at the foot of my bed.<br />
And fish are notoriously bad<br />
mousers. Sure they might catch<br />
the odd fly, but my cat Pekoe<br />
catches flies, roaches, ants and<br />
mice. He's even had a swipe or<br />
two at my fish. And just try<br />
taking your fish for a walk.<br />
Kensington's cats play an important<br />
role in the neighbourhood.<br />
What bilsiness would last<br />
long without its cats patrolling<br />
the aisles through the night.<br />
Just witness the great white<br />
standing on guard in the front<br />
window of Ocean Fish. Constant<br />
vigilance! Even stores<br />
without their own cats benefit<br />
from free-lancers roaming the NEUTERING<br />
neighbourhood.<br />
Neutering a male can pre-<br />
CATS ARE COOL vent roaming, spraying and<br />
The very nature of the aver- fighting. A spayed female<br />
age Market resident is more . won't produce unwanted kitcat-like<br />
than fish-like. Cats are tens. Cats become sexually<br />
independent, flexible survi- active at about six months of<br />
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