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2 NEWS The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
Bank Stops Street Sleepers ·<br />
Mike Milando<br />
Until recently, enclaves in<br />
the walls of the Royal Bank<br />
branch at the southwest corner<br />
of Spadina and College<br />
served as sleeping quarters<br />
for about two or three Market<br />
residents. Then the bank<br />
erected barriers in that<br />
space, wooden embankments<br />
slanted at 45 degrees<br />
with a decorative metal plate<br />
across them.<br />
Before the metal plate was<br />
added, the branch's manager<br />
didn't know what the finished<br />
product would look<br />
like, only that the building<br />
was receiving a face-lift,<br />
some kind of remodelling or<br />
restructuring. Customer<br />
relations explained that customers<br />
have complained,<br />
saying they are reluctant to<br />
use · banking machines<br />
because of fear of street<br />
people.<br />
Nearby, the Corner Dropin<br />
on Augusta Ave. isn't a<br />
place for street people to<br />
sleep either, but everyone is<br />
welcome for coffee and a<br />
sandwich each morning and<br />
to hang out for part of the<br />
day. Many of the people who<br />
go there sleep on the street.<br />
A group of them agreed to<br />
speak with me, if they didn't<br />
have to give their names.<br />
Almost all said they understand<br />
wjly the bank would<br />
erect the barriers: they are in<br />
the business of serving customers<br />
and when the customers<br />
complain you have to<br />
do something .. They didn't<br />
seem very concerned.<br />
But they explained that<br />
there will always be people<br />
for whom sleeping on the<br />
street is· an appropriate thing,<br />
at a given time. And like<br />
most banks, the Royal Bank<br />
is at a streetcorner which is<br />
Time for Another Capsule?<br />
New Health Campus Unveiled<br />
Masha Buell<br />
The new Doctors Hospital<br />
Multicultural Community<br />
Health Campus, Clinical and<br />
Community Services Centre<br />
was officially opened on<br />
Monday October 22 with a<br />
ceremony in the new building<br />
at 340 College Street.<br />
The Honourable Lincoln M.<br />
Alexander, Lieutenant Governor<br />
of Ontario, shared the<br />
unveiling of the cornerstone<br />
with. Zanana Akande, Minister<br />
of Community and Social<br />
Services and MPP for<br />
St.Andrew-St. Patrick,<br />
Metro Chairman Alan<br />
Tonks and six-year-old<br />
Yvonne Lee from King<br />
Edward Public School.<br />
Yvonne read a list of items<br />
that were placed in a time<br />
capsule under the cornerstone.<br />
Time capsule contents<br />
include copies of documents<br />
found in the original 1888<br />
time capsule, as well as current<br />
newspapers, coins, hospital-specifi.c<br />
information,<br />
and some childrens' handicrafts.<br />
(The original artifacts<br />
found in the 1888 cornerstone<br />
can be viewed in the<br />
new Health Sciences Library<br />
on the sixth floor of the new<br />
Clinical and Community Services<br />
Centre at 340 College<br />
Street.)<br />
The new Clinical and<br />
Community Services Centre<br />
represents a milestone in the<br />
plans for the Doctors Hospital<br />
Multicultural Community<br />
Health Campus which will<br />
function as an umbrella<br />
organisation for a complete<br />
range of medical, social and<br />
community services, delivered<br />
in partnership with<br />
many social and health service<br />
agencies.<br />
well-lit with many passersby.<br />
So it's a lot safer than other<br />
places. They said sleeping in<br />
a back alley, people are<br />
· often beaten up - sometimes<br />
by crusaders who think<br />
they'll improve society by<br />
beating up a street person to<br />
teach him or her a lesson.<br />
They suggested that customers<br />
of the bank who are<br />
afraid of people sleeping on<br />
the street should try it, even<br />
one time. Maybe when they<br />
have, their fear of people<br />
sleeping on the street won't<br />
be as great as their understanding<br />
of the fear that<br />
street people face.<br />
Malcolm, who works at the<br />
Drop-in and used to live on<br />
the street himself, added: the<br />
way things are going - free<br />
trade and layoffs, the GST<br />
- more people than realize<br />
it will be taking up this challenge<br />
in the near future.<br />
Community Centre Roundup<br />
Mike Milandao<br />
Cecil Seeks<br />
Constitution<br />
A sub-committee was set<br />
up by Cecil Centre's adminstrative<br />
committee, to look<br />
at relations betwee n the<br />
Cecil executive- which is<br />
also the board of management-and<br />
the administrative<br />
committee itself (AC).<br />
That sub-committee of the<br />
AC is presently formulating<br />
proposals that amount to<br />
"radical surgery on the centre's<br />
structure" in the opinion<br />
of director Julia Goldstein.<br />
Sub-committee members<br />
Julia Goldstein, Josie Hayes,<br />
and Robert Barnett are<br />
examining the constitutions<br />
of other centres for adoption<br />
in whole or in part by Cecil<br />
Centre, or as aids in writing ~<br />
new one for Cecil Centre~<br />
There has been mention at<br />
administrative committee<br />
(AC) meetings of including<br />
public input to this process in<br />
the future, but no decision<br />
has been made.<br />
This sub-committee originated<br />
around the time of resignations<br />
from the administrative<br />
committee (and<br />
Board) by Louisa Kamin and<br />
Yvonne Ferrer, members<br />
whose view of the AC's role<br />
and powers differed from the<br />
director's. They and Kerry<br />
Gearin had been attempting<br />
to respond to staff discontent<br />
after the AC -received a<br />
unanimous, unsigned staff<br />
memo from the Centre's<br />
staff, an attempt "blocked by<br />
the director" says Kelly<br />
Gearin. '<br />
Gearin is a member of the<br />
AC and its executive. However,<br />
at the last AC meeting,<br />
which Gearin did not attend,<br />
chairperson Roberta King<br />
announced that Gearin's resignation<br />
in "a local newspaper"<br />
was "accepted", commenting<br />
that it would have<br />
been nice if the centre had<br />
been informed directly.<br />
But Gearin says she has<br />
not decided to resign and<br />
that her letter in the last<br />
issue of Drum, while critical<br />
Does anyone out there have a<br />
picture of how it was before?<br />
Yvonne Lee (centre), behind,from left to right, The Honourable Lincoln M.<br />
Alexander, Zanana Akande, Bob Hall, and Dr. Bob Frankford.<br />
of the centre's management,<br />
said ·nothing about her<br />
resigning. She says "If I had<br />
decided to resign, I would<br />
have communicated this<br />
directly to the centre." She<br />
signed the letter as an<br />
"Executive Board Member".<br />
Scadding Court's<br />
lOthAGM<br />
Scadding Court Community.<br />
Centre located at<br />
Bathurst and Dundas streets<br />
held its annual general<br />
meeting October 26. Eight<br />
persons were acclaimed to<br />
the centre's Board of Management.<br />
Pat Dale, Bill Graham,<br />
Ming-Chu Yung, and Minerva<br />
Hui are new. Krista<br />
Snow, Alice LeBlanc, Sonny<br />
Atkinson, and Dermot<br />
Moore continue - they<br />
were acclaimed after their<br />
two-year terms expired.<br />
The other four of the 12<br />
elected positions on the<br />
Board are held by Chris<br />
Bolton, Jenny Chen, Mario<br />
Silva, and Sunny Labrosse,<br />
who enter the second year of<br />
their two-year term. The<br />
remaining four of the 16<br />
member Board are appointed<br />
officials.<br />
Board chairp~rson Sunny<br />
Labrosse announced that<br />
architects will be chosen for<br />
the centre's planned expansion<br />
in about 10 days, and<br />
the centre hopes to have<br />
something on paper by the<br />
end of the year. He said that<br />
one of the main reasons the<br />
Board in the past year had<br />
been able to focus on policy<br />
matters that affect day to daymatters<br />
was the staff, suggesting<br />
initiatives. This year's<br />
retreat of Board and staff<br />
had been the best of his<br />
experience he said.<br />
Terri Hope, director of the<br />
centre, highlighted cooperative<br />
programming initiatives<br />
that had been started in the<br />
past year. Among others, the<br />
list included anti-racism<br />
action, AIDS aware ness,<br />
Chinese outreach, and after<br />
school programming with<br />
neighbouring Ryerson Public.<br />
The general meeting was<br />
followed by a dance.<br />
photo: Buzz Bu!7.a<br />
photo: Brian Summers<br />
GOOFS<br />
To Play Benefit<br />
Colin Puffer<br />
Censorship of art has been<br />
an issue recently much discussed<br />
in North America. We<br />
are aware of the prosecution<br />
of the Cincinatti gallery that<br />
displayed Robert Mapplethorpe<br />
's photographs and have<br />
heard about the charges<br />
against 2 Live Crew. We know<br />
that Canada Customs regularly<br />
restricts the importation of<br />
literature into the country. But<br />
there is a prosecution of a local<br />
company, Fringe Product Inc.<br />
that hasn't received much<br />
attention. See Another Court<br />
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LABOUR<br />
SONGS<br />
For use in ·ra!Hes,<br />
pickets, and &rgaruzing.<br />
'The Litde Red<br />
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The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
Eight Elected to<br />
Downtown Health Board<br />
Lee Zaslofsky<br />
Lee is a Community<br />
Health Worker, West Central<br />
Community Health Centres<br />
Last October 16 the<br />
Downtown Community<br />
Health Board held elections<br />
to fill its eight positions.<br />
The elections were held in<br />
a crowded room at the 519<br />
Community Centre. Sixteen<br />
residents tried for the<br />
Board's eight positions.<br />
After a talk by Board of<br />
Health chair Jack Layton<br />
and Fran Perkins of the Public<br />
Health department, the<br />
voting began.<br />
The eight people elected<br />
to the Community Health<br />
Board include people with a<br />
variety of interests and backgrounds:<br />
Michael Shapcott, a<br />
community organizer; Louise<br />
Sommers, a childbirth<br />
instructor; Robert Hutchinson,<br />
a counsellor at the People<br />
With AIDS Foundation;<br />
Phong Tham, an AIDS Educator<br />
working with Vietnamese-Canadians;<br />
John<br />
Campey, a longtime community<br />
activist; Dick Moore,<br />
Alison Stirling, and myself.<br />
These days there is a growing<br />
emphasis on the community's<br />
role in health. After<br />
all, it's pretty hard to keep<br />
healthy if your city or neighbourhood<br />
is polluted, if<br />
incomes are too low, if social<br />
strife is an everyday thing.<br />
That's where the Community<br />
Health Boards come in.<br />
There is one in each of<br />
Toronto's four health areas.<br />
Their mandate is to make<br />
sure community residents<br />
have a strong voice in shaping<br />
the City's health services,<br />
and in raising the health<br />
NEWS<br />
issues we feel are important.<br />
Kensington shares many<br />
problems with other downtown<br />
residents, while having<br />
a few of its own. It's going to<br />
be important for Kensington<br />
residents to make their voices<br />
heard as the newly elected<br />
Community Health Board<br />
gets to work.<br />
Deep Quong Clears Hurdles<br />
But Race Not Over<br />
David Perlman<br />
October 30, after close to<br />
five hours of heated deputations<br />
and acrimonious debate,<br />
the City's Land Use committee<br />
voted 4-2 to approve a 70-<br />
unit subsidised housing complex,<br />
Deep Quong Homes, at<br />
25 and 27 Cecil Street. The<br />
motion to approve was made<br />
by Councillor Amer who<br />
called the project "the single<br />
most ·important issue I have<br />
dealt with in my Ward". Also<br />
voting to approve were eouncillors<br />
Layton, Maxwell and<br />
Hall, of Wards 6, 11 and 7.<br />
Opposed were Councillors<br />
Gardner of Ward 15 and<br />
Councillor Walker of Ward<br />
16.<br />
Deep Quong Homes now<br />
goes to a vote of council,<br />
probably December 4. And<br />
judging from the reactions of<br />
the two councillors who<br />
opposed the project at the<br />
land use committee meeting,<br />
the project will have its<br />
oppopents at Council.<br />
And judging by the number<br />
and tone of deputants for<br />
and against the project, there<br />
will be people who won't let<br />
the ' matter rest, whether<br />
Council approves the development<br />
or turns it down.<br />
The Deep Quong Board,<br />
of which this writer is a<br />
member, will meet Tuesday<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember 6 to attempt to<br />
respond to concerns raised at<br />
. the meeting, and to attempt<br />
the difficult task of getting<br />
neighbourhood people<br />
opposed to the project<br />
involved in the committees<br />
that will have the task of seeing<br />
to it that the project is<br />
controlled by the community<br />
it is located in.<br />
•••••••••••••••••••••••<br />
DISTANT DRUM<br />
Coming in December ·<br />
For Cecil Centre Watchers<br />
Drum has come into possession of a document prepared<br />
by the executive director of Cecil Centre and circulated to,<br />
among others, the Cecil Board of Management. The document<br />
responds to Drum coverage of Cecil Centre issues,<br />
and suggests that Drum has motives other than our stated<br />
ones. Decide for yourselves in the December Drum.<br />
nme at Last for Tenant Rights<br />
The on-again-off-again effort to get a tenant move_ment<br />
going in the Kensington Market area is gathering steam<br />
once more.<br />
Watch out for the "tenant survey" that volunteers will<br />
be carrying around the area between now and month end.<br />
The questions are simple, the responses could make or<br />
break efforts to protect the existing stock of affordable<br />
housing in the Market area.<br />
For people who get missed by the surveyors, we'll have<br />
a clip-out version of the questionnaire in the December<br />
DRUM.<br />
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retailer or the provider of any service in the Market area,<br />
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Kensington coupon monopoly map. Contact DRUM at<br />
599-DRUM for details, by FRIDAY <strong>Nov</strong>ember 23.<br />
And in January<br />
Challenge to the province, ... an open letter to the Minister<br />
of the Environment of Ontario, regarding the Railway<br />
Lands and the Spadina LltT.<br />
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TALKiNG<br />
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Last month, in this<br />
space, DRUM said no to<br />
City Council renewing<br />
the' mandate of the<br />
Kensington Market Area Task<br />
Force, until the residents'<br />
and business men's associations<br />
have renewed their own<br />
mandate in the community.<br />
And at a subsequent emergency<br />
meeting of community<br />
task force members, we got<br />
raked over , the coals for our<br />
remarks. So here's some<br />
clarification of what we<br />
meant:<br />
DRUM agrees with the task<br />
force that much of the<br />
important business raised by<br />
the task force is unfinished.<br />
And this city council<br />
now has less than a year<br />
left to act on task force<br />
recommendations. So this is<br />
the time you'd expect · City<br />
staff, and politicians, to<br />
start "damage control"- m~ki<br />
_n g s u r e t h e r e ' s no - o n e<br />
around to blow the whistle<br />
on unkept promises.<br />
This version of the task<br />
foree should be around for<br />
as long as this version of<br />
city council. It's up to the<br />
next council to ·decide<br />
whether there should be a<br />
renewed task force. (And in<br />
making that decision we hope<br />
that they take our comments<br />
in the previous DRUM into<br />
account.)<br />
Drum is a publication of Kensington Market Drum,<br />
72A Kensington Avenue, Toronto M5T 2Kl.<br />
· Drum is published monthly.<br />
Phone or fOx (416) 599-DRUM<br />
for information on deadlines<br />
Drum is distributed free, door to<br />
door, in the Kensinglc?n Market Area<br />
(see map p.S-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. For<br />
schools and study groups, up lo 1 00<br />
copies of Drum are available, free of<br />
charge if you collect.<br />
Drum is available by subscripiton,<br />
outside our door lo doOr distribution<br />
arrea. The cost is $15P.er eight<br />
issues. Back issues are avialabe.<br />
liems in Drum credited lo individuals<br />
are in the COj:)yright of those individuals.<br />
Points of view in such items<br />
are those of the writer, not necessar-<br />
. ilyDrum's.<br />
. TALKING DRUM The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
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mation service operating<br />
through the Talking Yellow<br />
Pages: a shaky start, but<br />
we're there. Phone 283-1010, 1<br />
then, when prompted, 3786<br />
(DRUM). Then, contact us<br />
with yourideas for the service;<br />
• that a save-the-canopies<br />
deal is definitely in the<br />
works: <strong>Nov</strong>ember 13, 7pm,<br />
committee room 1, city hall,<br />
task force meeting, we'll<br />
hope to hear what urban<br />
design has in mind;<br />
• that time io; running out on<br />
the restaurant control by-law<br />
-(set to expire in January),<br />
and that the no-parking-fornew-housing<br />
by-law being<br />
proposed to replace it is running<br />
into opposition from<br />
Public Works: watch the<br />
agenda for December 11<br />
City Land Use Committee.<br />
That's where we could get<br />
our first glimpse of the new<br />
by-law;<br />
• that there's a new "big<br />
fish" on Augusta (Osler Fi"h<br />
Co.):one happy spin-off, so<br />
far, is more people are find~<br />
ing out about the laneway to<br />
the Bellevue parking lot,<br />
right at Osler's back door;<br />
- 0 • that someonc's garbage is<br />
't" ~ l • cf" som~one. else's gold, and that<br />
noth1'hg •s wasted when soyf<br />
ft\ beans are made into tofu and<br />
l__l_~ ~IN soy milk: it's going to take<br />
T\ 1 ~ that kind of thinking to stop<br />
p~ v\ t ·~ the Metro (and Market) rot;<br />
•••••••••••••••••••••<br />
LAST TIME<br />
WE REPORTED<br />
• that the Toronto Western<br />
Hospital's Leonard St.<br />
garage is doomed, and<br />
prospects for hoao;ing on the<br />
site appear poor: Next meeting<br />
of the Hospital's liaison<br />
committee (<strong>Nov</strong>ember 8)<br />
comes too early for us to<br />
announce, and too late for us<br />
to report here. More in<br />
December;<br />
• that the public will have a<br />
say <strong>Nov</strong> 19 when the OMB<br />
hearing into Precinct 9 of the<br />
· Railway Lands resumes: Not<br />
any more. Resumption of the<br />
hearing has been postponed<br />
to January 15, while City and<br />
CN try to hammer out a deal<br />
behind closed doors;<br />
• that our new MPP, Rosario<br />
Marchese, is now Ontario's<br />
Minister of Culture and<br />
Communications:Which no<br />
doubt made easier his early<br />
· ---= • that there arc families in<br />
Alexandra Park who feel<br />
under siege (drugs and housing<br />
projects, you know): as<br />
do all of us when the lawbreakers<br />
know we know;<br />
endorsement of the Bay<br />
Street Ballet Opera House in<br />
our riding. See Letters;<br />
• that the program coordinator<br />
at Cecil Centre, Madeline<br />
Yakimchuk, had been suspended<br />
and then fired by the<br />
executive director, Julia<br />
Goldstein, as part of a<br />
"showdown" at the Centre:<br />
since writing, the firing and<br />
suspension have been<br />
rev~rsed. The Centre has<br />
accepted a letter of resignation<br />
from Ms.Yakimchuk.<br />
The settlement also includes<br />
3 months severance pay and<br />
withdrawal of a union<br />
(CUPE) grievance against<br />
the Centre. There's no gag<br />
clause, so Ms. Yakimchuk<br />
can continue to speak out<br />
about the Centre;<br />
• that we have launched<br />
DRUM TALKING, an infor-<br />
Drum Goes Monthly<br />
Our next 5 publication dates are;<br />
• Dec 8<br />
• Jan 3<br />
• Feb 1<br />
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For information regarding deadlines please call<br />
Drum at 599-DRUM. If you are inquiring about<br />
deadlines for the Dec. edition, you should call soon .<br />
• that survivors of assault<br />
here . had taken aid to<br />
Mohawk survivors: and will<br />
not believe, as CTV told us<br />
to, that "it's all over now,<br />
folks";<br />
• that 'our mid-Drum map<br />
was being renovated, so pardon<br />
the mess: a new style, a<br />
new deal, and still these<br />
Market businesses are the<br />
backbone of our support.<br />
See page 8-9;<br />
• that it was pumpkin time,<br />
that it was harvest time ••• :<br />
and now it's only five more<br />
Sunday shopping days to<br />
Christmas;<br />
• that a major wager<br />
delayed the last Drum (we<br />
said the police wouldn't tow<br />
a front end loader illegally<br />
parked, if dared): As our ·<br />
readers know, they did. No<br />
more bets on there being<br />
method to the madnej;s of<br />
parking by-law enforcement<br />
in the Market. (See Augusta<br />
Hijinks, page 7);<br />
• that on October 20, the<br />
Toronto Disarmament Net~<br />
work and Greenpcace would<br />
be holding a rally for peace<br />
and the environment: see<br />
photo and report, page 11;<br />
• that_ the Toronto Board of<br />
Education is planning a _conference<br />
for April 1991 where<br />
parents will have a say in<br />
their children~s education: in<br />
the meantime contact<br />
Trustees Chow (591-8065)<br />
and Doiron (591-8044). It's<br />
what they're there for.
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letters to DRUM<br />
Letters<br />
. /'""<br />
Canada Needs Treatment<br />
To the Editorial Collective,<br />
The "crisis" of land claims<br />
in P.O. this summer teaches<br />
us many things. For example,<br />
CBC news broadcasters are<br />
able to say words like Kanesa<br />
take and Kahnawake.<br />
They are even able to pronounce<br />
them correctly, if<br />
forced to repeat them over<br />
and over.<br />
Non-native and non-white<br />
alike learned this summer<br />
that we must accept the<br />
social, political, economic,<br />
and military realities of<br />
racism. The fairly new European,<br />
patriarchal concept of<br />
ownership of people and<br />
property prevails.<br />
The war against native<br />
people in P .Q. led by a<br />
drunken P.M. and a provincial<br />
military dictatorship<br />
may be posted of hand delivered to Kensington Market<br />
Drum, Letters. 72A Kensington Avenue, Toronto Ontaro MST<br />
2Kl. Or you can fax your letters (but you have to phone ahead<br />
to 599-DRUM. Letters will be published in full where space<br />
permits. Letters edited for length willl be noted.<br />
shocked the world. Right<br />
now, political prisoners are<br />
being held, tortured, tried<br />
and convicted as criminals.<br />
And few cry out against this<br />
violation of human rights.<br />
How quickly the horror of<br />
"Oka" fades. How innocently<br />
the "progressive" community<br />
speaks of defense fund<br />
and legal justice system. In<br />
these "reces·sivc" economic<br />
times how tightly we hold on<br />
to what we've got.<br />
I live in T.O. and do not<br />
travel very often to other<br />
parts of Canada. My participation<br />
as a member of several<br />
national social justice<br />
groups leads me to perceive<br />
a sense of shame clouding<br />
the "Canadian identity";<br />
after the events near<br />
Chateauguay this summer.<br />
Seasons Tickets for Mar~hese<br />
Dear Drum<br />
re: Ballet Opera House<br />
The new 2,000 seat Ballet<br />
Opera House will cost $300 -<br />
$400 million. That's $150,000<br />
to $200,000 per seat! Rosario<br />
Marchese is in favour of it!<br />
Contruction cost $273 million.<br />
Land evaluated at $75<br />
million. (Globe & Mail<br />
1988). Plus cost overruns a Ia<br />
SKYDOME. QUESTION:<br />
who is going to pay for it'J<br />
Answer: The same people<br />
who are paying for Sky<br />
Dome.<br />
DECISION DAY<br />
Bob Rae & Co. have indicated<br />
to the City that they<br />
will make a decision on the<br />
Bally Opera House by <strong>Nov</strong>.<br />
20. Perhaps you could get a<br />
story ready for the Dec. issue<br />
in case the project gets the<br />
green light on <strong>Nov</strong>. 20.<br />
Robert L. Olsen<br />
Houses of the Rainbow<br />
Drum,<br />
I suggest that Kensington<br />
Market building owners<br />
paint up their premises in<br />
varied rainbow colours.<br />
Let's end this sameness and<br />
drabness. Have no premises<br />
in the same colour. How<br />
interesting and spectacular it<br />
would be.<br />
Also, many newcomers do<br />
not know that there are two<br />
Spadinas, named Road and<br />
A venue. Once I got stuck in<br />
an • elevator on Spadina<br />
Road. The police called the<br />
mechanics who lived in Mississauga<br />
who arrived at the<br />
same number on Spadina<br />
Avenue. Over an hour<br />
elapsed with me pent up.<br />
You can help, Drum. Do so.<br />
Sam Stevens<br />
[Editors' Note: Dear Sam- evidently Jeff Stinson agrees with<br />
you. Drabness begone! How about one of these on the Western<br />
Hospital's Smokestack? j<br />
,. ...<br />
As a country, we are like a<br />
drunk coming off a 300 year<br />
binge - waking up too sick<br />
and disgusted to clean up our,<br />
own shitty mess.<br />
Perhaps we should declare<br />
Kanesatake and Kahnawake<br />
as Canada and make the rest<br />
of the country a "treatment"<br />
centre.<br />
D. Sharpe<br />
3 Heavies<br />
Ruin<br />
Market<br />
Saturday<br />
On the pleasant' Indian<br />
summer morning of <strong>Nov</strong>ember<br />
3, three . men were<br />
observed having confrontations<br />
with local merchants<br />
throughout Kensington Market<br />
streets. They were a city<br />
inspector and 2 Metro Police<br />
officers who told many merchants<br />
that tickets would be<br />
mailed to them for placing<br />
products for sale on city sidewalks.<br />
It was obvious that the new<br />
inspector, was informed by<br />
his superiors to anticipate<br />
conflict. Two uniformed<br />
police officers were assigned<br />
to accompany him. The trio<br />
were verbally accosted by<br />
merchants, employees and<br />
customers alike as the tickets<br />
were casually handed out.<br />
On several occasions some<br />
people were warned to cease<br />
voicing their outrage or they<br />
would be arrested.<br />
Large displays of products<br />
for sale, even on sidewalks,<br />
(especially fruits and vegetables)<br />
have been a common<br />
sight to Kensington's Saturday<br />
shoppers for as long· as<br />
most can remember. In the<br />
past inspectors and police<br />
would overlook these displays<br />
or ask merchants to<br />
remove them. It seems City<br />
Hall must be looking to Market<br />
merchants to help generate<br />
cash to refill their piggy<br />
banks. Its hard to understand<br />
why these men left the Marke<br />
t with broad smiles on<br />
their faces.<br />
Sincerely<br />
Roberto Agricola<br />
Hi, I'm Kate and I'm an<br />
alcoholic. OHIP just paid<br />
approximately $40,000<br />
($1 ,500 a day) for me to go<br />
thru a rehabilitation program<br />
for the chemically addicted.<br />
Arriving at Tampa airport on<br />
Sept. 24, we were picked up<br />
and driven in a Lincoln limo<br />
to the sprawling Heritage<br />
facility lying in serene surroundings<br />
more than a hundred<br />
miles east of Tampa.<br />
The middle of nowhere, near<br />
Crystal Springs. For the next<br />
28 days I would experience<br />
an immersion course in A.A.<br />
"One ought to make a rigorously<br />
honest searching and<br />
fearless written moral inventory<br />
at least once in a lifetime.<br />
And then tell another ...<br />
."The owner of Heritage, an<br />
impeccably dressed, tanned<br />
and tall., white haired gentleman,<br />
is a recovering alcoholic,<br />
as are his publicity and<br />
promotion marketing person<br />
and much of the staff of professional<br />
and lay persons.<br />
Even the limo driver was<br />
twelve years clean and sober.<br />
HERITAGE ·<br />
IN THE MAKING<br />
During our stay we learned<br />
that the facility was only<br />
recently purchased and taken<br />
over by Heritage. There<br />
were therefore not surprisingly<br />
one or two "problems"<br />
still being ironed out. The<br />
old psychiatric facility sign<br />
still welcomes all the newly<br />
arrived. (Only one wing of<br />
the facility served psychiatric<br />
patients. Two other wings<br />
arc for the chemically dependent<br />
(C.D.U) and for food<br />
addicts (FF.A. U)- the grossly<br />
fat and the grossly thin.<br />
Rumblings are that this<br />
OHIP/US Treatment centre<br />
connection is about to come<br />
to an end. Ques.Hons have<br />
been raised. Nevertheless I<br />
am grateful to. 0 HIP and<br />
Heritage for giving me an<br />
opportunity to come to terms<br />
with my alcoholism. At last,<br />
after two previous 28 day<br />
treatme nt progra ms in<br />
Toronto (with which I had a<br />
few problems), I have the<br />
chance to learn to live in<br />
sobriety, one day at a time.<br />
I'm back 7 pounds lighter<br />
and several shades darker.<br />
Happy and healthy, ready to<br />
once more do battle in Kensington<br />
Market.<br />
Kate McNeil<br />
October30<br />
A young man of ever-shifting<br />
balance threatened to<br />
sacrifice a nursing mother's<br />
baby in a witchcraft ceremony<br />
"to save the world". She<br />
sat in the dark for three days,<br />
then finally in terror called<br />
the police. They came and<br />
took her to Queen Street<br />
where she is being held<br />
because of " personal<br />
hygiene". The baby was<br />
taken by children's aid. Several<br />
women in the community<br />
are meeting, angered at<br />
the way the matter was handled<br />
by the police, the Children's<br />
Aid Society and at<br />
Queen Street. Meanwhile<br />
the young man is out, and<br />
awar.:!, and holds himself<br />
responsible. The baby's<br />
mother is still held at Queen<br />
St., without her baby. Pain of<br />
pains. And for the baby?<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>embcr2<br />
In a past issue I reported<br />
that a survey would be done,<br />
to determine the nature of<br />
tenancies in the Market.<br />
Expect questions like these:<br />
-who do you pay rent to?<br />
- do you share kitchen and<br />
bathroom facilities?<br />
- would you be willing to<br />
provide info on the rent you<br />
are paying to a Kensington<br />
Market Tenants registry?<br />
- would you join a tenants<br />
group?<br />
- would you like to receive<br />
a tenants newsletter?<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember6<br />
By the way, the Last<br />
Temptation a nd I have<br />
struck a deal. Beginning<br />
around the middle of<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember, when the back<br />
room renovation is completed,<br />
I will take it over, and<br />
host a jazz- and-other-things<br />
jam Thursday through Sunday,<br />
6 to 11. It's been a<br />
dream of mine ever since I<br />
ran a similar room in New<br />
York, 3 blocks up from Lincoln<br />
Center, influenced by<br />
the older black singer Ethel<br />
Waters who entertained a<br />
small number of people in an<br />
intimate r
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Augu~ta Parking Yarn'<br />
a real tangle<br />
· Masha Buell<br />
(Overheard on Augusta:<br />
another woeful tale reflecting<br />
Kensington's ongoing<br />
parking and traffic headaches)<br />
For some time now, one<br />
business has had a regular<br />
delivery of heavy goods. The<br />
routine is a familiar one - the<br />
driver pulls over and partway<br />
up on the sidewalk. He hops<br />
down from the cab to alert<br />
the guys in the store. Then<br />
it's all hands on deck for this<br />
family run business as they<br />
turn out to help heave the<br />
sacks off the truck, to speed<br />
things up. It usually takes<br />
about 15 .- 20 minutes. And<br />
the battered sign above their<br />
heads reads Loading Zone.<br />
Just up the street a clothing<br />
business has an extensive<br />
outdoor display. The proprietor<br />
harbours growing frustration<br />
- shoppers can't see<br />
his merchandise from the<br />
corner, can't pass on the<br />
sidewalk. And they certainly<br />
can't turn the corner or drive<br />
past to park illegally in front<br />
of his store.<br />
Sp, this one day, Mr.<br />
Clothes has had enough. The<br />
police are summoned, and<br />
duly arrive-not surprising<br />
because they've been ticketing<br />
illegally parked vehicles<br />
with great vigour of late.<br />
The clothing merchant lets<br />
the police have it; he's lost as<br />
much as $1000 worth of business<br />
because of that truck. The<br />
driver must be summonsed.<br />
The police are all set to<br />
comply when a voice from<br />
behind another display drily<br />
observes that while the truck<br />
is actually loading and<br />
unloading someone has actually<br />
parked an automobile<br />
behind the truck. And someone<br />
has parked an automobile<br />
in front of the truck.<br />
The young men, heated<br />
from the loading and<br />
unloading join in the discussion.<br />
If the truck must be<br />
summonsed then so must<br />
those two cars. And of<br />
course, as with the Zoom<br />
Boom (see the October<br />
Drum) the police can only<br />
comply with the logic.<br />
But then, lo and behold, it<br />
is revealed that the cars in<br />
question, preventing the<br />
truck from leaving the scene<br />
of the crime, belong to none .<br />
other than Mr. Clothes and<br />
Co. They naturally do not<br />
want tickets to add to their<br />
other losses.<br />
The officer begs mercy<br />
and shakes his head in disbelief.<br />
And no-one is_ summonsed.<br />
Narrow streets, simmering<br />
outrage, years of frustration,<br />
and life in Kensington<br />
goes on.<br />
Lighten Up<br />
For The<br />
Holidays<br />
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one phone call<br />
gets you: - ""'#~<br />
· an extension ~cord ~<br />
a string of holiday<br />
lights (bulbs included)<br />
and best of all, willing<br />
hands to help put them<br />
up!<br />
Friday December 21st is the longest.night of<br />
the year. Want to be the brightest light on<br />
your block when the Festival Parade rolls by?<br />
CALL NOW<br />
593·9750<br />
ask for<br />
Martin Zimmerman<br />
with the kind co-operation of the Kensington Market<br />
Business Association and St. Stephen's Community House<br />
MARKET MATTERS The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
"Cut Rate Drug Store" corners of Spadina & Nassau 1910<br />
to 1920. Original painting part of Auction.<br />
photo: provided by Metropolitan Toronto library<br />
St. Stephens Fundraiser<br />
to be a Kensing#ton Celebration<br />
Peigi T. Rockwell<br />
St. Stephen's Community<br />
House is focusing on the<br />
Kensington Market community<br />
for this year's fundraising<br />
event.<br />
The fundraising committee<br />
is looking for historical photographs<br />
of the community<br />
and is inviting Kensington<br />
celebrities to be part of the<br />
event which takes place on<br />
Saturday, December 8 from<br />
7:30pm to 1:00am at the El<br />
Mocambo on Spadina Ave.<br />
Toronto's own -Prairie<br />
Oyster will provide dance<br />
music for the evening. Market<br />
restaurants and foodstores<br />
are donating appetizers<br />
and local businesses are<br />
providing items to be awarded<br />
as prizes and auctioned<br />
off.<br />
"We are hoping to make<br />
$15,000 at this event," says<br />
fundraising director Carol<br />
Roberts. "The money will go<br />
toward supporting the<br />
House's many communitybased<br />
programs."<br />
Tickets for the evening are<br />
$40 per person and come<br />
with partial tax receipt.<br />
If you would like to donate<br />
an item to the event or purchase<br />
tickets call Clare<br />
Parfitt at 925-2103.<br />
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The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
MARKET MATTERS<br />
7<br />
Garbage Crunch II<br />
ADler Supports_Extra Pick Up<br />
-<br />
by Mike Milando<br />
Just before going to press,<br />
Drum learned that City councillor<br />
Amer has written to<br />
City Public Works Commissioner<br />
Vardin, supporting a<br />
request from Market residents,<br />
merchants, and environmentalists<br />
for an extra<br />
weekly garbage pick-up.<br />
In the letter, Amer recognized<br />
that Kensington Market<br />
includes a market and<br />
thus has a need for more frequent<br />
garbage pick ups than<br />
a strictly residential community.<br />
But she tied her support<br />
to the effectiveness, one year<br />
from now, of the comprehensive<br />
waste reduction strategy<br />
being developed here.<br />
Before the next meeting of<br />
Kensington's garbage action<br />
gr-oup some time in the last<br />
week of <strong>Nov</strong>ember, group<br />
members plan to survey merchants<br />
asking what the<br />
breakdown of their garbage<br />
is and if they support the call<br />
for City collections Tuesdays,<br />
Thursdays, and Saturdays.<br />
Councillor Amer has been<br />
invited to this upcoming<br />
meeting. Downtown Metro<br />
councillor Dale Martin has<br />
already said he will attend.<br />
Martin's involvement is<br />
seen as crucial. While City<br />
Public Works collects<br />
garbage, it's. Metro Works<br />
who must do something with<br />
it: reduce, reuse, or recycle it<br />
at best; put it in landfills or<br />
incinerate it into the atmosphere<br />
at worst.<br />
At a recent composting<br />
conference, councillor Martin<br />
criticized Metro Council's<br />
"reckless strategy" for carrying<br />
out this responsibility.<br />
He spoke about the lack of<br />
public involvement and catalogued<br />
Council's inaction.<br />
Such delays by Council, he<br />
said, are leading inevitably to<br />
more large-scale landfills and<br />
incinerators before or without<br />
environmental assessments,<br />
instead of reduction,<br />
reuse, and recycling on a<br />
smaller and more decentralized<br />
basis.<br />
The strategy's "profound<br />
weakness", he maintained, is<br />
its "top-down approach", not<br />
involving the public. He went<br />
on to summarize a report<br />
adopted by Metro Council a<br />
year ago containing 5 steps<br />
for bottom-up, communitybased<br />
consultation processes<br />
for the siting of waste management<br />
facilities. Though it<br />
was adopted, it hasn't been<br />
implemented, he said.<br />
When informed of efforts<br />
in Kensington to organize<br />
composting of merchants<br />
organic· waste, he mentioned<br />
plans for a composter and<br />
organic waste management<br />
facility at the Ontario Food<br />
Terminal. Metro Works commissioner<br />
Ferguson will be<br />
reporting on it in two weeks<br />
and Martin will report to<br />
merchants inform residents<br />
and merchants at the garbage<br />
action group meeting.<br />
At another recent conference,<br />
of the It's Not Garbage<br />
environmental coalition,<br />
Maura Mcintyre and Bruce<br />
Pearce, executive assistants<br />
to City councillor Amer, distributed<br />
copies of the October<br />
issue of Drum. They<br />
highlighted the article<br />
reporting on efforts to organize<br />
extra collection and<br />
composting in the Market.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember -s, <strong>1990</strong><br />
Mr Nick Vardin<br />
commissioner<br />
~ublic Works Department<br />
23ra floor, East tower<br />
City Hall<br />
Re:<br />
CITY OF TORONTO<br />
Councillor Elizabeth Amer<br />
City Hall, Toronto M~H 2N2 Telephone 392-7911<br />
Ward Five<br />
Request for Additional Garbage Pick-up in· Kensington Market<br />
Dear Mr vardin,<br />
A group of residents, merehants and environmentalists in Kensington<br />
Market has requested that the City add an extra weekly garbage pickup<br />
in the market. I support this request, and ask that you give it<br />
your favourable consideration.<br />
My office has been working with the community to develop a waste<br />
reduction strategy and we will soon be submitting our<br />
recommendations to the City.<br />
There are more then 200 businesses within the community, many of<br />
which are restaurants and green grocers. The existing collection<br />
system--designed for a strictly residential community--does not<br />
address the waste problem posed by the large retail -community.<br />
I recommend that an extra weekly garbage pick-up be extended to<br />
Kensington Market in recognition of this problem and of the<br />
community's efforts to develop a comprehensive waste reduction<br />
strategy. If implemented, such a pick-up should be reviewed in a<br />
year's time to evaluate the progress of the reduction strategy.<br />
Thank you for your attention to this matter.<br />
cc Kensington Drum<br />
Kensington Market Area Task Force<br />
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Changes<br />
by Angie Choly<br />
Autumn is definitely here<br />
and there has been enough<br />
crispness in the air to remind<br />
us that winter will soon<br />
break in upon the scene.<br />
Changes.<br />
On the corner of Bellevue<br />
and Nassau sits a little variety/grocery<br />
store, the kind of<br />
store that reminds one of<br />
days gone by. It's the type of<br />
place that's becoming scarce,<br />
run by elderly couples who<br />
have made it their life.<br />
It was the cheap cigarettes<br />
that initially made me return<br />
again and again, until I realized<br />
that this shuffling lively<br />
pair was the real reason I<br />
was there.<br />
On any given day I'd go in<br />
and ask the wife for a package<br />
of cigarettes and she<br />
would start to look about for<br />
my brand. Her husband who<br />
was always determined that<br />
the whole exchange should<br />
only take seconds would proceed<br />
'to interrupt as if she<br />
were incompetent. At that<br />
point she would look at me,<br />
patience streaming out of<br />
her smiling eyes.<br />
· With heaps of freshly<br />
sliced tomatoes, fresh buns,<br />
various cheeses, cold cuts<br />
with unpronouncable names<br />
(they made sandwiches,too)<br />
an old weigh scale, a cash<br />
register, piles of boxes and<br />
old fridges, there wasn't .<br />
much room for the two of<br />
them back there. Giggles<br />
would ensue-I had witnessed<br />
this scene many times<br />
before.<br />
She'd roll her eyes and<br />
lean over the counter with a<br />
conspiratorial air and say<br />
that he liked to do this, then<br />
reach back and magically<br />
. produce what her husband<br />
was still looking for. I<br />
admired her acceptance.<br />
I've had a busy week. I<br />
went into the store today and<br />
they weren't there. I asked,<br />
they'd retired nine days ago.<br />
I<br />
Changes.<br />
As I walked away I was left<br />
with a feeling of betrayal. I<br />
thought that they would<br />
always be there. It stings<br />
because I never even got to<br />
know their names.<br />
photo: Peigi Rockwell<br />
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Call (24 hrs) 925-6800<br />
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8 The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
Drum's Kensington N<br />
Three hundred stores<br />
Street by Street: the people who 11.<br />
Body & Soul Restaurants Grocery Bakery Veg & Fruit Entertain11<br />
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Samko Coin Laundry<br />
150 Augusta, 595-5277<br />
Clean and Friendly, 7<br />
days a week. Dry Cleaning<br />
Too!<br />
Melo's Food Centre<br />
151 Augusta, 596-8344<br />
Portuguese Style<br />
Sausages<br />
Import and Export<br />
Lusitania Grocery<br />
152 Augusta Avenue<br />
593-9745<br />
_Portuguese Grocery<br />
Store<br />
The Boat<br />
158 Augusta, 593-9218<br />
International Cuisine<br />
Specializing in Portuguese<br />
Food<br />
CAAMUnitoo<br />
Hardware<br />
160 Augusta & 564 Dundas<br />
598-8195 or 596-8098<br />
Two Locations\<br />
The New Siboney<br />
169A Augusta, 977-4277<br />
Nothin' doin'.<br />
Barraca das Frutas/Roszler<br />
Fruits<br />
186 Augusta, 593-9709<br />
Fruit and Vegetables<br />
House of Spice Importers<br />
190 Augusta, 594-8724<br />
or 182 Baldwin, 593-9804<br />
Spice, Coffee, Fruits,<br />
Nuts<br />
Vaniplla<br />
193 Augusta, 340-0491<br />
Fine Lao Thai Cuisine<br />
Restaurant, catering,<br />
take-out<br />
Tri-M Butcher Shoppe<br />
194 Augusta Avenue<br />
Closed Gone Fishin'<br />
Osler Fish Company<br />
194 Augusta, 348-9251<br />
Something new, something<br />
different. More fish<br />
for your $.<br />
Park Royal<br />
199-201 Augusta, 593-<br />
9314<br />
Furniture and Appliances<br />
Everything for the Home<br />
CvJt National<br />
200 & 224 Augusta<br />
5%-6417<br />
Clothes For The Whole<br />
Family<br />
Shoney's<br />
Recycled Clothing<br />
206 Augusta, 979-
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TheKe Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
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14 St. Andrew Street<br />
Vintage Sparkle, Pizza7Z,<br />
Ja?z.<br />
Wear It! Share It!<br />
Saint Andrew Poultry<br />
17 St Andrew, 596-7305<br />
Wholesale and Retail<br />
Paddy (;ardens Florist<br />
28 St Andrew, 585-2159<br />
Fresh Cut flowers and<br />
plants for all occasions.<br />
International Herb!i<br />
29 St Andrew, (416) 593-<br />
5238<br />
Specializing in Chinese<br />
Natural Herbs, Patent<br />
Medicine, Acupuncture<br />
Aher Natives<br />
30 St Andrew Street<br />
593-6891. Where Elvis<br />
Shops.<br />
Get it while it lasts<br />
Kensington Fruit Market<br />
34 St Andrew, 593-9530<br />
Fruits, vegetables, aloes<br />
too!!<br />
D'ARCY<br />
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Freshness, a family bu.ines..<br />
Exile<br />
34b St Andrew Sireet<br />
596..0827<br />
As Usual The Unusual<br />
Blue Mountain COII!lllhing<br />
253 College, #208, 235-<br />
9959<br />
IBM and clone computers,<br />
diagnostic, software,<br />
and repair<br />
Massimo's<br />
302 College, %7-0527<br />
Sit down, Pick-up, and<br />
Delivery<br />
Pizza and Pasta Heaven<br />
Flying Monkey Natur.tl<br />
Foods<br />
314 College, 968-1515<br />
Open 7 days a weekfrom<br />
bulk food to crystals<br />
L:u.erline De!iktop Publishing<br />
& Design I~<br />
317 College Street<br />
924-8726 Fax 924-3826<br />
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College Books<br />
321 College, 975-0849<br />
A new bookstore serving<br />
university and community<br />
Central Guaranty TI'Ulit<br />
343 College, 961-8247<br />
Mon closed. Thes<br />
Thurs 10-5, Fri 10-7, Sat<br />
12-3.<br />
Great HorliC Natural<br />
Food!i 'n Things<br />
378 College, 964-1805<br />
Organic meats, tofu, natural<br />
cosmetics, etcetera<br />
Front Row Video Centre<br />
400 College Street, 927-<br />
1702<br />
Open<br />
Come see<br />
Sneaky Dee's<br />
431 College, 368-5090<br />
Global Survival Thesdays<br />
Great Music, Good<br />
Cause<br />
Mars Food<br />
432 College St<br />
921-6332<br />
Out Of This World<br />
Spadina Garden Restaur.mt<br />
116 Dundas West, 977-<br />
3413/4<br />
Szechuan-Hunan &<br />
Peking Cuisine<br />
Fully licensed, LLBO<br />
Spadina Retail PO!it Outlet<br />
4Mt 0"- Jih<br />
576-578 Dundas, 593-<br />
8885<br />
Full service retail postal<br />
outlet.<br />
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Sun King Cleaner!i ~g~ill!J<br />
576-578 Dundas, 593-<br />
8885<br />
Quality Dry Oeaning,<br />
Repairs and Alteratiom<br />
-Fast!<br />
1•1v+tm•1<br />
Sun One Hour Photo<br />
Lab<br />
310 Spadina, 591-9307<br />
One hr. processing, cameras,<br />
accessories, passport<br />
photos<br />
Switzel'li Deli Restaurant<br />
324 Spadina, 596-6900<br />
Catering, deli delivery<br />
Order by fax 596-7044<br />
Liquor Control Board of<br />
Ontario -<br />
337 Spadina, 597-0145<br />
Fine wine, spirits and<br />
beer from around the<br />
world.<br />
Jordan's Apparel<br />
353 Spadina, 977-4133<br />
Warehouse Outlet of<br />
Men's and Boy's Suits<br />
Century 21,<br />
First Reahy Inc.<br />
377 Spadina, 340-8900<br />
Tonny Louie, broker<br />
GrO!iliman's Tavern<br />
379 Spadina, 977-7000<br />
Neighbourhood Bar.<br />
Nightly Entertainment<br />
Spadina Cafe<br />
401 Spadina, 340-6383<br />
A Pleasant Change. A<br />
Little of the Continent in<br />
Chinatown<br />
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281 College, 928-2936<br />
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10<br />
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MARKET GOURMET<br />
Peigi T Rockwell<br />
Winter months are cold months in Northern China and in<br />
the old days charcoal fires burned in the centre of the homes<br />
to provide heat and to cook the main meal in what was called<br />
a hot pot.<br />
Meat was kept frozen outside Jln the roof and then thinly<br />
sliced when needed. Vegetables, broth and meat were all<br />
cooked together in the same pot. This economical and<br />
flavourful method of cooking is still possible today: Hot pots<br />
can be purchased in Chinatown or you can rig up your own<br />
using a fondue pot.<br />
David Sun runs a Northern Chinese restaurant, the Tung<br />
Lai Shung, in the Dragon City food court and he owns an<br />
establishment on Kensington Ave. which used to feature hot<br />
pots as its specialty but now is used as an auxilliary kitchen<br />
for the Tung Lai Shung.<br />
According to Sun, the Chinese say lamb is the best meat to<br />
eat in winter in order to keep warm but any meat or fish can<br />
be used in the hot pot as long as it is thinly sliced.<br />
First •. one must start with a variety of condiments. Soy<br />
sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, rice wine, sugar, green onions<br />
and sesame butter should all be accessible to the diner. In a<br />
small bowl, the diner puts a little bit of Bull Head barbeque<br />
sauce (made from brill fish and available in Chinatown) and<br />
mixes it with an egg and whatever combination of sauces suits<br />
the palate.<br />
Meanwhile, a broth is boiling in the hot pot in the centre of<br />
the table to which is added the raw vegetable or meat. The<br />
meat is added to the hot pot in small individual sieves while<br />
the vegetables are thrown into the broth on their own and<br />
shared. Sun suggests the vegetables should include Chinese<br />
cabbage, small cubes of frozen and fresh tofu, mushrooms,<br />
spinach and whatever other vegetables the diner craves.<br />
Once the vegetables or meat are cooked, they are placed in<br />
the sauces combined in the small bowl and eaten while<br />
another vegetable or meat goes in the hot pot. The evening is<br />
spent cooking at the table until all the meat and vegetables<br />
are finished. Then the flavourful broth is divided and consumed.<br />
For those of you wanting to try this meal with a real hot<br />
pot, they range in price from $14 to $50 and can be purchased<br />
at most of the kitchen supply shops on Spadina.<br />
MARKET MARKET The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
Keep.Warm with ~~~<br />
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David Sun and his grand-daughter Tracy demonstrate the charcoal burning hot-pot.<br />
Speaking of<br />
Hot Pots:<br />
that was quite a<br />
soup kitthen in front<br />
of the Harbour Castle<br />
Hilton, during the<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember 7 Tory<br />
$500-a-plate<br />
fundraiser: let's hear<br />
it for pumpkins,<br />
thyme and garlic<br />
from Sanci's, 66<br />
Kensington Ave.<br />
Market of Markets<br />
Masha Buell<br />
photos Buzz Borza<br />
Balmy Indian Summer.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember. Springlike except<br />
for the omnipresent pumpkins.<br />
Trip to the Ontario<br />
Food Terminal begins at 9:30 ·<br />
a.m. Reasonable. We climb<br />
into the van. Bobby: " ... more<br />
interesting to go when the<br />
serious market stuff is happening<br />
- say about 6:30 but<br />
it's crazy then .. .fork lifts and<br />
skids and you gotta watch<br />
your back all the<br />
time ... nobody'd have time to<br />
talk ... "<br />
Off we go to the place<br />
where thousands of people<br />
buy and sell tons of produce<br />
for millions of dollars, all<br />
year round. Somwhere in<br />
Etobicoke.<br />
The first part of the Food<br />
Terminal looks like a huge<br />
semi-covered parking lot .<br />
This is where you find the<br />
outdoor stalls. About 400<br />
spots rented out to growers<br />
from all over Ontario. Right<br />
now besides pumpkins:<br />
superb apples, pears, many ·<br />
kinds of squash, beets, carrot,<br />
turnips, cauliflowers, and<br />
a wonderful variety of men<br />
and women of all ages.<br />
Peace. Plenty. How is possible<br />
that people go hungry in<br />
Ontario?<br />
Inside the warehouse - the<br />
wholesale produce companies.<br />
Fruits of the earth,<br />
trees, vines from every part<br />
of the planet. Anytifue you<br />
want them. The action here<br />
is pretty lively. Trucks, forklifts,<br />
buggies trundling boxes,<br />
sacks, barrels and crates. No<br />
small talk. Only big talk.<br />
Many vigorous young men,<br />
and a few imperial older<br />
photo: Buzz Bur?.a<br />
ones. No women in sight.<br />
Bobbby's friends at the market<br />
notice his little entourage<br />
with cocked eyebrows and a<br />
grin. And we try to keep out<br />
of the way.<br />
On to the smoky little coffee<br />
shop for breakfast. Here<br />
I am one of two women. The<br />
woman and the man behind<br />
the counter are producing<br />
eggs n bacon, western sandwiches,<br />
coffee, and yes,<br />
Ontario potatoes turned into<br />
crisp french fries, with<br />
·astounding speed.<br />
And then it's pumpkin<br />
time. Back to Kensington for<br />
the work day world of the<br />
Market. With a truckful.<br />
And an eyeful<br />
Out in the parking lot, with the city skyl(ne in the distance, to put it all in perspective
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The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong> KENSINGTON COMMON 11<br />
Downtown Coalition _Going Strong<br />
Peter Baxter<br />
The Downtown Coalition<br />
for Social Justice, D.C.S.J.<br />
(formerly Downtown Coalition<br />
Against the G.S.T.) is<br />
an ad hoc group of individual<br />
citizens who oppose the<br />
current conservative/corporate<br />
agenda and who favour<br />
a more equitable distribution<br />
of wealth and resources.<br />
The Downtown Coalition is<br />
one of 45 working groups of<br />
the Ontario Coalition for<br />
Social Justice, the organizing<br />
body of Pro-Canada Network<br />
of Ontario.<br />
The Downtown Coalition<br />
organized a successful<br />
demonstration against the<br />
G.S.T. through Kensington<br />
Market in March <strong>1990</strong>. It<br />
also organized locally during<br />
the nation-wide "Campaign<br />
For Fair Taxes " balloting,<br />
April 6, 7, and 8, <strong>1990</strong>. The<br />
Coalition gathered over<br />
5,000 ballots opposing the<br />
G .S.T. at its Kensington ,<br />
Chinatown and Homeshow<br />
locations. Nationally, over 2<br />
million ballots protesting this<br />
regressive tax were filled out<br />
during the April week<br />
alone!!!!<br />
The Downtown Coalition<br />
was delighted with, and<br />
encouraged by the community<br />
support for these actions.<br />
Give Animals a Brake<br />
Jack Gewarter<br />
While Animal Health Day <br />
at Kensington Market on<br />
Wednesday, October 17,<br />
went over with a bit of a<br />
whimper this year due to a<br />
pathetically small turnout, it<br />
was not a complete loss.<br />
There is an increasingly<br />
gr~ater interest and awareness<br />
in animal issues and the<br />
beautiful Indian summer day<br />
was enjoyed by all who participated<br />
in the open forum<br />
with the Bloorcourt Veterinary<br />
Clinic staff. Perhaps<br />
next year with more extensive<br />
advertising we will be<br />
able to provide more information<br />
to a broader group<br />
during Animal Health Week.<br />
One positive thing that<br />
came out of the day was the<br />
accumulation of several signatures<br />
on a very important<br />
petition. A local volunteer<br />
organization known as<br />
Zoocheck Canada is presently<br />
lobbying the provincial<br />
government to pass a law<br />
implementing a zoo licensing<br />
system which would regulate<br />
and establish minimum standards<br />
for zoos and wildlife<br />
collections throughout<br />
Ontario. The atrocities<br />
incurred at inadequate roadside<br />
menageries and private<br />
wild animal prisons throughout<br />
the country are heartbreaking.<br />
Unfortunately, all wild animals<br />
have not been allowed<br />
to-exist in their natural environments.<br />
Zoocheck is<br />
actively doing something<br />
about the plight of wildlife in<br />
dwind11ing habitats and in<br />
captivity. They have hosted a:<br />
variety of fundraising and<br />
consciousness-raising benefits<br />
and have provided aid to<br />
the elephants and ctiimpanzees<br />
of the world through<br />
such special guests as<br />
Richard Leakey and Jane<br />
Goodall. A whales benefit is<br />
planned for next year and on<br />
this <strong>Nov</strong>ember 16, at Convocation<br />
Hall, polar<br />
explorer/environmentalist<br />
Will Steger will be their<br />
geust speaker on the plight<br />
of Antarctica and the ramification<br />
this has for the global<br />
environment. For more<br />
information call Zoocheck at<br />
(416) 872-1111 or (416) 696-<br />
0241.<br />
In discussing animal concerns<br />
I want also address the<br />
issue of blatant carnage on<br />
our local roadways. Increasingly<br />
it seems that household<br />
pets are being maimed, crippled<br />
and painfully killed on<br />
residential streets. I have<br />
witnessed cold-hearted<br />
motorists accelerate to purposely<br />
nail defenseless,<br />
stunned or terrified animals.<br />
One elderly man· brought ·in<br />
his dog with a crushed leg<br />
after it had been injured by a<br />
hit-and-run driver while he<br />
was walking it on a leash, on<br />
the sidewalk!<br />
This blood-sport of the<br />
roads must stop. Drivers<br />
have no business racing hormonally<br />
charged monsters<br />
down the streets with a legal<br />
speed limit of 40 krnlhr. The<br />
obvious disrespect for live<br />
reflects sadly on our materi~<br />
alistic society. The only<br />
impression made by those<br />
macho 'mag' wheels is the<br />
treadmark across the body of<br />
a dead cat.<br />
Bloorcourt<br />
Veterinary<br />
Clinic<br />
Consultation By Appointment Monday to Saturday<br />
Health Care, Surgery and Acupuncture<br />
1079 Bloor Street West<br />
(416) 537-9677<br />
Dr. Jack Gewarter -1 ~<br />
We welcome more ideas and<br />
participation in future<br />
events.<br />
The D.C.S.J. will participate<br />
in the National Re-Call<br />
and Sign-Up Day, part of the<br />
Action Program recently<br />
adopted by the Canadian<br />
Labour Congress, Pro-Canada<br />
Network and progressive<br />
community groups. On Saturday,<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember 10, <strong>1990</strong>,<br />
beginning at 11:00am, The<br />
Downtown Coalition will<br />
meet with others in front of<br />
the constituency office of<br />
David McDonald, P.C. member<br />
of parliament for<br />
Rosedale (465 Wellesley St.<br />
E.). More groups will join at<br />
the offices of other Tory<br />
M.P.s in Metro, York<br />
Region and across Canada.<br />
We will be demonstrating<br />
to recall in peoples' minds<br />
the Tory legislative and governmental<br />
misdeeds arising<br />
out of the conservative/corporate<br />
agenda: like unfair<br />
taxes such as G.S.T.; like the<br />
Free Trade Agreement and<br />
its related mass plant shutdowns<br />
and job losses; like<br />
the destruction of universality<br />
of social programs; like<br />
cutbacks to children, women,<br />
senior citizens and native<br />
programs; and Mulroney's<br />
contempt for democracy in<br />
his refusal to recall Parlia-<br />
ment to deal with the crisis<br />
at Oka and the Persian Gulf;<br />
making 24 partisan appointments<br />
to the Senate in order<br />
to circumvent the will of the<br />
people, and invoking closure<br />
- the cutting off of debate -<br />
21 times in the House of<br />
Commons since 1984- more<br />
times than all governments<br />
between 1913 and 1984 (18<br />
times)!!!<br />
Also, during this symbolic<br />
Re-Call Day, we will invite<br />
people through a sign-up<br />
pledge card to join with us<br />
in future actions for positive<br />
alternatives.<br />
For information or sugges- ·<br />
tions for action call Peter,<br />
599-1874 or Nick or Nadine,<br />
923-4668.<br />
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KENSINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL<br />
Premier Rae addresses the No Time To Waste rally as to his Governments plans<br />
and commitments.<br />
No Time to Waste Rally<br />
Brian Eng<br />
There is a plan afoot in Market will be canvassed to<br />
Kensington Market that will see how they wish to deal<br />
attempt to deal with the with our garbage crunch. A<br />
huge amounts of garbage questionnaire is presently<br />
(most of which isn't really<br />
garbage anyway) that is gen-<br />
being prepared. A draft of<br />
the proposed survey will be<br />
crated daily in the Market. available through the Drum<br />
Ideas floated so far range office. The commitee (so far<br />
from recycling and compost-<br />
it doesn't have a name)<br />
ing to simply adding an working on the project<br />
extra pickup.<br />
would appreciate any suggestions.<br />
Sometime during the next<br />
the sovereign rights of the month merchants in the I<br />
On Saturday, October 20,<br />
over 5000 people gathered in<br />
Toronto for a rally for peace<br />
and disarmament. The rally<br />
was organized by the Toronto<br />
Disarmament Network<br />
(TON) and Greenpeace.<br />
The rally began at Queen's<br />
Park where it heard Pre-mier<br />
Bob Rae re-affirm the<br />
NDP's commitment to a better<br />
future for the province in<br />
terms of environmental protection.<br />
Jay Paulter, of<br />
Greenpeace, emphasised the<br />
need to deal with the many<br />
poisons being pumped into<br />
the environment by polluting<br />
industries. He demanded<br />
that Rae adhere to his election<br />
pledges.<br />
Ann Rowan, from the<br />
TDN, pointed out that th.e<br />
conflict in the Middle Eas.tts<br />
mostly abou~ safeguardt!lg<br />
the flow of 011 that supplies<br />
polluting industries.<br />
As well, Chief Gary P?tts<br />
of the Teme-aguma Ftrst<br />
Nations s~oke of th.e. need<br />
for Canadtan recogmt10n of<br />
March to Grange Park<br />
The spirited group then<br />
proceeded to march to<br />
Grange Park, chanting "No<br />
time to waste" and "Shop<br />
next week/Join us now". At<br />
the park the marchers participated<br />
in an afternoon of<br />
events that included performances<br />
by The Dream Warriors,<br />
Fresh Water Drum,<br />
Siyakha and the Four Directions<br />
Drummers, and the<br />
chance to peruse over 100<br />
information tables and sample<br />
food and drinks.<br />
Garbage Plans Afoot .<br />
Photo: Karen Elliot<br />
What Did It Signify?<br />
According to organizers of<br />
the event, this rally represented<br />
an historic linking of<br />
the peace and environmental<br />
movements. Steve Smith of<br />
-the TON believes that "The<br />
issues-of peace and environment<br />
are now seen as the<br />
major issues that confront<br />
the most people in the world<br />
today". The rally was seen as<br />
a first attempt for two major<br />
organizations working in<br />
these areas to speak about<br />
these issues from a common<br />
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12 LEARNING WITH YOU The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
STUDENTS OF ALL AGES! ·~<br />
DRUMwillacknowlcdgeall 1<br />
submissions to LEARNING<br />
WITH YOU. And we'll publish l<br />
some of them, too. Send us your I<br />
articles, reviews, letters, draw- i<br />
ings and ideas. Don't forget to !<br />
include your name and a tele- 1<br />
phone number. ·<br />
A Poem<br />
Looking back as years gone<br />
Bye<br />
All the nmtakes I've made<br />
Still w()ndering why<br />
Times have changed in so<br />
Many ways<br />
I think of all my<br />
Wasted days<br />
I know now all the things<br />
I've done<br />
I'm a lot older now<br />
Notone&one<br />
I've grown up strong<br />
And awfully quick<br />
And all my memories<br />
In my mind do stick<br />
"Snap Pans"<br />
llarris Todman and a group of children from Ryerson Public School, practicing for the new comm"'lliiY<br />
steel band, "Snap Pans", a new program for 11/exandra Park started by Scaddirzg Court CommUflity Centre.<br />
Training tu!d teheatsal takes place every Tuesday and Thursday· kids 3:30 ·5:30pm, teens and adults, 6:00<br />
- 8:00pnL Everyone's welcome to join - No fee- For more infvrmalion phone 363-5392<br />
Shelley<br />
Oasis Altema ti vc School<br />
;tfovitl't {lp<br />
TRANSITIONS<br />
Special Information<br />
for Parents of<br />
Grades 7 and 8 Students<br />
Your children are on the move. They will<br />
soon be moving up to high school.<br />
Learn more about this transition to help<br />
your children with their decisions and<br />
choices. ·<br />
• Selecting a high school<br />
• Choosing courses<br />
Contact your children's guidance teacher<br />
or the Area West/Central Education<br />
Office.<br />
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393-1200<br />
Toronto Board of Education<br />
Cooperative<br />
EducatiOn Programs<br />
for Students With<br />
Special Needs<br />
Masha Buell<br />
A workshop· and luncheon<br />
that will focus on Cooperative<br />
Education Programs for students<br />
with special needs will<br />
be held on Friday N ovember<br />
16, <strong>1990</strong> from 8:30 a.m. to<br />
12:30 p.m Brockton High<br />
School, 90 Croatia Street.<br />
Many students and employers<br />
are realizing the benefits of<br />
Cooperative Education which<br />
allows a student to gain valuable<br />
life and working experience<br />
while earning school<br />
credits. The goal of this workshop<br />
is to broaden the base of<br />
people who are willing to have<br />
special needs cooperative education<br />
students in their<br />
employ.<br />
Special needs students are<br />
those who require extra support<br />
to benefit from their programs.<br />
They include students<br />
who may be hearing impaired,<br />
have limited vision, be physically<br />
or developmentally handicapped.<br />
For more info contact:<br />
Duncan Scherberger,<br />
591-8035<br />
Toronto Board of Education<br />
Foot in Mouth<br />
at Health Department<br />
Alma Penn<br />
Recently we received a letter<br />
indicating that some children<br />
in daycare have been<br />
getting an . illness called<br />
"Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease"<br />
or coxsackie virus. It<br />
went on to describe the<br />
symptoms, and explained<br />
that it is spread "through<br />
coughing, sneezing, and in<br />
stools (dirty diapers)" and<br />
advised parents what they<br />
should do if our child got the<br />
virus.<br />
One piece of advice was<br />
that we should put bleach in<br />
'<br />
~·,<br />
tjle dishwater or use throwaway<br />
utensils.<br />
Another p-iece of advice<br />
was that we should use<br />
throwaway diapers.<br />
What kinds of messages do<br />
we convey to our children<br />
about caring for the environment<br />
by the evident double<br />
standards here? Does this<br />
also mean that if my child<br />
has this virus I should put<br />
juice bottles or cans in the<br />
garbage instead of the blue<br />
pox? And what happens to<br />
the virus contained in the<br />
diapers once they are carried<br />
off to the landfill site?<br />
~3ffi(]) w lJDruQ's.(J)<br />
child care centre<br />
SNOWFLAKE CHILDCARE CENTRE<br />
Full and part-time spaces now available for children 2 l/2<br />
to 5 years.<br />
A small non-profit daycare. Whole foods menu. Individual<br />
and creative development. Call 368-912.4.<br />
39 Carr Street, Toronto, Ontario<br />
Oasis<br />
A L T E R N A T ·I V E<br />
SECONDARY SCHOO L<br />
707 Dundas Street West<br />
Room3<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
M5T 2W6<br />
Telephone 393-9830<br />
Oasis Alternative<br />
Secondary School<br />
• full-time academic program gr 9-12,<br />
general and advanced level<br />
• Work/study option<br />
• individualized learning program<br />
geared to the needs of the individual<br />
• for more information call 393-9830<br />
Toronto Board of Education<br />
Family Day care Services<br />
A United Way Agency<br />
We need warm. loving and reliable people<br />
to provide childcare in their homes<br />
Benefits to include:<br />
• earning additional income while being at home<br />
• ongoing training and support<br />
• toys and equipment<br />
Open your home and your heart by becoming a<br />
licensed childcare provider.<br />
For 1110re Information call 922~9556.
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The Arcade<br />
by Carla da Ponte<br />
The Arcade is really great.<br />
If kids are on the street doing<br />
nothing or are at home really<br />
bored, they should go the the<br />
Arcade someday and see<br />
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Smoking<br />
Susan Lem<br />
Teenagers nowadays have<br />
started this thing about<br />
Movie Review by Emmy Pantin<br />
KARATE KIDS©<br />
"Karate Kids" starts with a<br />
typical "street scene" with<br />
typical "street kids".<br />
Although this movie is a cartoon<br />
it was realistically and<br />
very well done. It goes on to<br />
introduce the malevolent<br />
"smiling man". The main<br />
characters are Karate, the<br />
hero, Rosa, Kafate'.s girl<br />
friend, Pedro, a young boy<br />
and loyal friend of Karate,<br />
Mario, Pedro and Karate's<br />
friend and of course the smiling<br />
man.<br />
Mario and Pedro statt<br />
working in the market place,<br />
juggling. But later get all<br />
their money stolen. The smiling<br />
man comes on the scene<br />
and offers the boys a gold<br />
watch but before the boys<br />
can -get in to trouble Karate<br />
saves them. Karate explains<br />
(quite effectively) how the<br />
boys could get A.I.D.S. and<br />
what A.I.D.S. could do to<br />
them. The next day the smiling<br />
man offers the boys<br />
money to come with him and<br />
Mario goes with him, ignoring<br />
the advice of Karate.<br />
Pedro finds Karate and tells<br />
him what happened to Mario<br />
and Karate gets a friend to<br />
chase the smiling man's<br />
black car. That's where the<br />
high-speed chase begins. It's<br />
a great scene. I really liked<br />
this movie, it was realistically<br />
done, with no bull shit and it<br />
was done in a way that really<br />
educated me - and wasn't<br />
boring. And that's the main<br />
word - education. It's format<br />
was well done and was<br />
clearly made for street kids.<br />
Some parts were scary and<br />
very straight forward, but<br />
don't let that turn you off<br />
this movie, I highly rcccom- ·<br />
mend it.<br />
Halloween Dance<br />
On Friday, October 26th<br />
the Arcade held a Halloween<br />
Dance at St. Stephen's Comrpunity<br />
House. Prizes were<br />
awarded for the winners of"<br />
the AIDS Awareness Week<br />
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Poster competition and for<br />
best costumes at the dance.<br />
A good time was had by all.<br />
Thanks to our volunteers for<br />
helping us make it a rousing<br />
success!<br />
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Another Court Case<br />
cont. from pg 2<br />
On September 5, Fringe· with 3 other bands at Apoca<br />
Product Inc. and its distributor lypse (750 College St.) Pro<br />
Record Peddlar will once again ceeds from the show will go<br />
find themselves in 's<br />
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707, DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO<br />
SCAOOJNG COURT<br />
COHMUNITY CENTRE<br />
COMMUNITY & ARTS The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
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Dotes To Watch·<br />
Mondays: at Cecil Community<br />
Centre, Toy Library. 10-<br />
1:30am.<br />
At Cecil Community Centre.<br />
Community Drop-in Night. Toy<br />
Library, movie, ping-pong,<br />
billiards and games. 6-10 pm.<br />
Tuesdays: Environmental<br />
Action Tuesdays at Sneaky<br />
Dees. Different bands each<br />
'Veek, and for price of admission<br />
you get all you can eat buffet.<br />
All proceeds to Toronto<br />
Disarmament Network. Call<br />
368-5090 for line up. -<br />
Wednesdays: at Cecil<br />
Community Centre, Toy<br />
Library. 10-11:30 am.<br />
Sanderson Library. Disney<br />
Family Films. 7 pm. Free<br />
Fridays: at Sanderson Library<br />
- Tales for Twos. Stories and<br />
songs for children 18-36 months<br />
old. 10:45am. Please register.<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 363-<br />
5392.<br />
Tues., Thurs., Sun. 6:30pm.<br />
New In,telligance Series<br />
continues (Jan Cox). call 762-<br />
6056 for info.<br />
First Thurs (6-8pm) and third<br />
Thurs. (8-lOpm). Ontario<br />
Bisexual Network. Support and<br />
an open forum for the<br />
discussion of topics relevant to<br />
bisexual men and women.<br />
Coming Soon to The Centre<br />
of The New World"Convention.<br />
National Film Board of Canada<br />
sponsors regular film screenings<br />
at 303 Augusta Ave. on environmental<br />
issues. Combined<br />
with local artists shorts and<br />
guest speakers and guided discussion<br />
on the theme of the<br />
film, they are certain you'll find<br />
the week-night evening to be ·<br />
entertaining, educational and<br />
fun with the community comm_ing<br />
together.<br />
There will be a small admission<br />
and healthy food-stuffs for<br />
all. For info, 864-0824 mon-fri<br />
daytime. If you would like to<br />
suggest a theme'or a special<br />
guest speaker, please call them<br />
to talk.<br />
Ongoing at Sanderson<br />
Library, 327 Bathurst (at Dundas).<br />
Hours: Monday to Thursday<br />
10 - 8:30, Friday 10 - 6,<br />
Saturday' 9 - 5, Sunday 1:30 -<br />
5 (from October to April). Tales<br />
for Two's- for children 18-<br />
36 months; Babysitting Course<br />
- for teens 11 and older;. Disney<br />
Feature Films- for the<br />
whole family; Chinese Films for<br />
adults, in Cantonese or Mandarin.<br />
Call for dates and times,<br />
393-7653. -<br />
Saturday, <strong>Nov</strong>ember 24, <strong>1990</strong><br />
The Youth and Drugs Workshop<br />
is sponsored by Drug<br />
Abuse Prevention Program &<br />
the Department of Public<br />
Health. It will happen at Toronto<br />
City Hall, Council Chambers.<br />
For further information, contact<br />
the Drug Action Centre, 392-<br />
0807.<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>ember 14.<br />
Join members of the media in a<br />
discussion about minorities in<br />
the newsroom. Does the Canadian<br />
media accurately reflect<br />
the multi-racial character of our<br />
society? Is the coverage of<br />
issues involving minorities free.<br />
of bias? Are minority youth<br />
finding empoyment and workrelated<br />
opportunities in newsrooms?<br />
Panelists include:<br />
Haroon Siddiqui, national editor<br />
Toronto Star; Hamlin<br />
Grange, CBC reporter; Sylvia<br />
Stead, associate national editor<br />
Globe and Mail; Vian Ewari,<br />
asst. managing editor special<br />
features Toronto Star; Rita<br />
Deverell, producer/anchor<br />
Vision TV; Kathy English,<br />
instructor journalism dept.<br />
Ryerson Polytechnic. 1 - 4, St.<br />
Lawrence Centre, 27 Front St.<br />
E. Free admission, everyone<br />
welcome.<br />
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The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
The Heart of<br />
Saturday Night.<br />
Nancy Harvey, Doug<br />
Macfarlane and Colin Puffer<br />
After listening to an old<br />
Tom Waits album the Drum<br />
staff decided that Market<br />
residents needed a deep<br />
analysis of Kensington's varied<br />
billiard parlours. The<br />
first billiards championship<br />
of Upper Canada was held in<br />
Toronto in 1864. Experts<br />
aren't sure whether it took<br />
place at Eddie's, Spadina<br />
Billiards or possibly even<br />
K.C.'s. So, on a damp Saturday<br />
night, 3 Drummers<br />
grabbed their cues and headed<br />
out to shoot a few games<br />
and report their findings to<br />
the community. ·<br />
The Criteria<br />
We decided to look at each<br />
pool hall under various headings;<br />
number of tables, cost,<br />
quality of capuccino, snacks<br />
etc.<br />
Tivoli Billiards<br />
(268 Augusta)<br />
Conveniently located<br />
across from a laundromat,<br />
The Tivoli is the perfect<br />
place to shoot a few games<br />
while the clothes are in the<br />
washer. Almost always<br />
crowded, The Tiv has the<br />
feeling of a private men's<br />
club. The only woman inside<br />
during our game was The<br />
Drum researcher.<br />
The Tivoli boasts - 14<br />
pooi/snooker tables and 2<br />
billiards tables, all well lit,<br />
with plenty of straight cues,<br />
chalk and talc available at<br />
each table. Great capuccinos<br />
and espressos were delivered<br />
promptly to our tables and<br />
the bar (non-alcoholic- none<br />
of the visited halls is<br />
licensed) was stocked with<br />
soft drinks, gum, chips,<br />
cigarettes, muffins and meat<br />
sandwiches. The men's washroom<br />
was pretty clean but<br />
the women's loo was in need<br />
of some attention.<br />
If you just want to soak up<br />
atmosphere you can sit at the<br />
bar and watch TV, play<br />
video games or have a bash<br />
on one of the beautiful old<br />
fooseball tables.<br />
Tivoli Billiards is open ·<br />
from 8 to 1 a.m. Monday<br />
through Saturday and 8 'til<br />
midnight Sunday. You can<br />
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Famous Foods<br />
World wide deli imports<br />
and chinese products<br />
• Coffee Beans<br />
• Cheese<br />
• Chocolate<br />
• Smoked Fish & Meat<br />
• Dry Fruits<br />
• Dry Nuts<br />
• Caviar<br />
Under New<br />
Management<br />
64 Kensington Ave.<br />
Toronto Ont. MST 2Kl<br />
593-9281<br />
rent a table for ortly $3.00 an<br />
hour.<br />
Eddy's Bilrlards .<br />
(294A College)<br />
The first thing you notice<br />
when you enter Eddie's iS the<br />
stamp of flamenco coming<br />
from Don Quixote next door.<br />
.The crowd at Eddie's is quite<br />
a bit younger than at the<br />
Tivoli and there were even a<br />
few women playing pool, one<br />
of the many video games,<br />
fooseball, or watching TV.<br />
The capuccino was deemed<br />
better than the espresso and<br />
the bar offered a selection of<br />
nuts, soup, cigarettes, beef<br />
patties and even Perrier<br />
water. Rules of play<br />
appeared to vary a bit here.<br />
Instead of having t.o keep one<br />
foot on the floor it seemed<br />
you had to have at least one<br />
·foot on the table to make a<br />
legal shot.<br />
Eddie's has 8 pool tables, 6<br />
snooker tables and a billiards<br />
table, all reasonably well lit.<br />
There were good cues, chalk<br />
at the table and baby powder<br />
available at the bar. The<br />
washrooms were functional.<br />
This parlour opens at 11<br />
a.m. every day and closes at 1<br />
a.m, except Friday and Saturday<br />
when it stays open until 4<br />
a.m. Tables here cost $3.20 an<br />
hour,<br />
Spadina Bnliards<br />
(468 Spadina Ave.)<br />
A proper pool hall should<br />
have cigarette smoke swirling<br />
over the tables and Spadina<br />
Billiards was the only place<br />
visited that did well in this<br />
category. There was no<br />
capuccino or espresso but we<br />
were so buzzed on caffeine<br />
from all our sampling that we<br />
didn't care. The bar, tended<br />
by a friendly owner served up<br />
the usual fare: pop, patties,<br />
chips - and cigarettes.<br />
Here, the,re was by far the<br />
best selection of video games,<br />
a fooseball game and, mercifully<br />
(the Leafs were getting<br />
creamed again), no TV.<br />
Spadina Billiards appears<br />
to be a popular place and<br />
almost all of the 8 snooker<br />
and 3 pool tables (well and<br />
evenly lit) were in use. The<br />
women's washroom was<br />
locked so it was maybe a little<br />
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The Kensington Market Drum, <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>1990</strong><br />
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01 Space Wanted<br />
• Wanted for six<br />
months. Garage for<br />
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of Kensington.<br />
Phone DRUM 977-<br />
0192.<br />
02 StuH for Sale<br />
• Ducati 860 GTS.<br />
1979 sport touring<br />
model in jet black.<br />
Engine rebuilt and<br />
serviced by Keith<br />
Harte racing. Custom<br />
upper fairing as shown<br />
& lower fairing (not in<br />
photo). Equipped with<br />
electric & kickstart.<br />
$3,000. Phone 941-<br />
9945.<br />
• Student desk (IKEA)<br />
dark oak finish. 5 foot<br />
wide with 2 shelf unit.<br />
$100 (cost me $400).<br />
Bob 593-9279<br />
• Own a beautiful 12-<br />
string guitar. A Yamaha<br />
Limited Edition<br />
FG-512 in black with<br />
white trim & pick<br />
guard. Currently set up<br />
as an 8-string, but original<br />
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set up comes with it.<br />
Also black hardshell<br />
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• Rodman motorcycle<br />
·boots, tan, size 7, just<br />
broken in for biking,<br />
$75 o.b.o. Call 941-<br />
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• Brown leather wallabies,<br />
size 7, free to a<br />
good home. Call 941-<br />
9945.<br />
Using a<br />
touch tone<br />
phone call<br />
283-1010,<br />
then when<br />
prompted<br />
enter code<br />
• Small but upright<br />
piano. You move, $200<br />
cash. Bob 593-9279.<br />
• Unite! cordless<br />
phone $80. 1974 VW<br />
Sunbug, many extras<br />
$1,000. 1977 Datsun<br />
2802. Runs. Needs<br />
body. $350. Phone<br />
DRUM 977-0192, Box<br />
1.<br />
04 Childcare<br />
• Family Day Care<br />
Services, a United Way<br />
Agency needs warm,<br />
loving and reliable<br />
people to provide<br />
childcare in their<br />
homes. Sec ad page 11.<br />
OS Help Wanted<br />
• Wanted, Census<br />
Commissioners fo.r the<br />
1991 Census. Must<br />
have owne car and<br />
valid driver's license;<br />
must bcr available for<br />
full time employment<br />
from April 2, 1991 to<br />
July 19, 1991. Preference<br />
will be given to<br />
residents in the federal<br />
riding of Trinity-Spadina.<br />
Must be willing to<br />
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Remuneration<br />
will be $7,000, paid in<br />
four installments.<br />
Deadline December 3,<br />
<strong>1990</strong>. For further information<br />
contact: Lito<br />
Romano 967-3729.<br />
06 Help at Hand<br />
• Computer Tutoring,<br />
MS DOS, word processing.<br />
Reasonable<br />
hourly rate. Call<br />
Joseph 360-8651.<br />
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• Women! Need a<br />
healthy break? Pains<br />
in your stomach? Bad<br />
Nerves? Headaches?<br />
Eating problems?_<br />
Trouble<br />
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Backaches? The Women's<br />
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Group will help you:<br />
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what's going on in your<br />
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problems; learn new<br />
ways to deal with<br />
stress; meet others in<br />
the same situation;<br />
have some fun. Group<br />
will start in September.<br />
Call Amina at 364-<br />
4107 if you want information<br />
and to join. NO<br />
COST.<br />
10 Births<br />
• Would you like to<br />
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please call Amina at<br />
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