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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 />

L-----------------~------------------------------------~<br />

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 />

==~1-:;;:::j~~~ AG:.;-:~-- -tfi~.L;sEJ-<br />

ORIENTATION PLAN OF PRECINCTS' B AND 9 ~<br />

'- APPROX. SCALE 1:4000<br />

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 />

C<br />

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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offers some space<br />

free of charge for<br />

information about<br />

community events.<br />

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Starting a new business?<br />

Looking for wap<br />

to increase business?<br />

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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Des services d'interpretation seront disponibles a chaque atelier d'information.<br />

Per ogni gruppo di lavoro saranno disponibili dei servizi di interpretariato.<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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Page 6, Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong><br />

Talking Drum Talking Drum Talk<br />

TALKi.NG<br />

- ·RvM~~<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 />

72A Kensington Avenue. Toronto MST 2K1.<br />

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 />

door, in the Kensington Market Area<br />

(see map p. 8-9) and further afield.<br />

And it is available at the commercial<br />

oudets listed on the map, as well as<br />

at selected oudets across Metro.<br />

For schools and study groups, up to<br />

100 copies of Drum are available,<br />

free of charge it you collect.<br />

Drum is available by subscription,<br />

outside our door-to-door distribution<br />

area. The cost is $15 per<br />

eight issues. Back issues are available.<br />

Items in Drum credited to individuals<br />

are in the copyright of those<br />

individuals. Points of view in such<br />

items are those of the writer, not<br />

necessarily Drum's.<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 />

Kensington Avenue, Toronto Ontario M5T 2Kl. Oryou can fax your leiters (but<br />

you have to phone ahead) to 599-3786. Letters will be published in full where space<br />

Letters to DRUM permits. Letters edited for length will be noted.<br />

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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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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Page 8, Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong><br />

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 />

I'<br />

What's Autumn without Pumpkin Pie?<br />

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"<br />

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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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 />

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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 />

Stuart Crombie<br />

Bloorcourt<br />

Veterinary<br />

Clinic<br />

1079 Bloor Street West<br />

(416) 537-9677<br />

Appointment Monday to Saturday , .<br />

Health Care, Surgery and Acupuncture Dr. Jack Gewarter .<br />

KEN51NbTON CATS<br />

~'ELECTION '90"<br />

assistant director cal~ed out lliiiii=o<br />

"roll camera and mustc playback".<br />

.,. _, _.-<br />

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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Page 16, Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong><br />

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 />

A New Bookstore Serving the University<br />

and Toronto communities<br />

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321 College, South Side, just 1 block west of Spadina<br />

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Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>1990</strong>, Page 17<br />

'<br />

I<br />

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 />

~<br />

MINIMUM<br />

REQUESTED<br />

PROCEEDS FOR:<br />

BLACK C.A.P.~·<br />

FIFE HOUSE<br />

• 0 •<br />

TORONTOPWA<br />

FOUNDATION.<br />

-->!-~~ ~<br />

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 />

fil iiiiiiiiiita.'mij--...f&. [i·-:~-ii· iif~ nb;<br />

_·,~==~:=Ni ~\~ i=t""~ -]== ===«il-:;:;:~<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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