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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative<br />
and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015.<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 />
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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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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 />
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