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"A Kensington People's Paper" <strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong><br />
INSIDE:<br />
Saturday <strong>Jun</strong>e 27<br />
The First Annual<br />
-Harbord Fringe Event,<br />
"n~ori to nine,<br />
rain or shine. "-<br />
BIA + Fringe =<br />
'<br />
PARTY!!<br />
Neighbourhood entertainment<br />
Free.<br />
Let's. hope it's annual.<br />
See DRUM SALUTES, page 9.<br />
BACK THEN-IT -wAS NOTHING BUT BANANAS:<br />
FARMER BOB TALKS TO FRANCES BORG: · page Dl 1<br />
D4<br />
ALSO -INSIDE<br />
STACK SPAT<br />
• victory for AHI at board of<br />
- health and<br />
big strides at council;<br />
see Major motions passed, page 2<br />
- • $100,00 incinerator repair:<br />
"dramatic illiprovemt>lt'' u.<br />
"cosmetic retrofit"?<br />
see Six week shutdown, page 2<br />
• Taking to the streets: Action<br />
on Hospital Inciner~tion to start<br />
"information picket".<br />
See Join the action, page 8<br />
above: 1928 -<br />
the Pitoscia<br />
family, .<br />
Palmerston<br />
Avenue. Photo<br />
Courtesy Mel-<br />
0-Ripe Banana<br />
Brands<br />
left: 1960 -<br />
Anne and<br />
Antonia Sanci,<br />
Kensington<br />
Marke,t. Photo<br />
courtesy ,<br />
Frances Borg<br />
AND<br />
REGULARLY<br />
NEWS, VIEWS I 2,3,5<br />
KENSINGTON PLACE I 3<br />
LAST TIME WE REPORTED I 4<br />
EDITORIAL, LETTERS I 4<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL, LIVING I 6, 7<br />
SCRAPBOOK I 8,9<br />
DIRECTORY I D1-D4<br />
MEET THE MERCHANTS I D 1, D4<br />
COM¥UNITY,ARTS I 10-14<br />
TEEN BEAT I 10<br />
LEARNING WITH YOU I 11<br />
PAGAN WAY I 12<br />
POET'S CORNER I 13<br />
ENTERTAINMENT I 14,15<br />
COUPONS, BRICKS I 16<br />
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Page Two/<strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong> NEWS Kensington Market DRUM<br />
Major motions passed at Board of Health and Council<br />
please opponents of Toronto Hospital incinerator<br />
'14t their <strong>Jun</strong>e 4 meeting the Toronto Board of Health heard deputations .from AHI(Kensington)<br />
(Action on Hospital Incineration) and from various environmental groups and a<br />
spokesperson .from the Toronto Hospital CounCil. After hearing speakers, the Board of<br />
Health adopted the follmving motions regarding the Toronto Western Hospital incinerator.<br />
The vote at the Board of Health was wzarzimous. ·<br />
BIOMEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL AND EMISSIONS<br />
FROM HOSPITAL WASTE INCINERATORS<br />
The Board of Health recommends:<br />
1. That the Board of Health ehdorse the following recommendations, as amended, of the<br />
Action on Hospital Incineration- Kensington (AHI):<br />
We urgently request:<br />
* (a) That the Toronto Hospital immediately implement the new Ministry definition of<br />
biomedical waste which will reduce the incineration waste stream from the hospital by<br />
30%.<br />
(b) That a freez~ be placed on the Toronto Hospital's licence to import waste so that no<br />
new contracts can be taken on and quotas -from present customers cannot be<br />
increased. ,<br />
(c) That the Toronto Hospital stop burning for any other inst'itutions, thus placing the<br />
imperative to find acceptable disposal methods back upon the institution which<br />
produces the waste.<br />
* (d) That the incinerator be replaced with a safe, effective, -non-incineration technology for<br />
the disposal of infectious waste with all due haste.<br />
(e) The Medical Officer of Health be asked to work with the Ministry of the Environment<br />
to formulate a feasible timetable for the implementation of the above recommendations.<br />
(t) That the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Health be urged tu provide<br />
incentives to all hospitals to act proactively in implementing the above recommendations.<br />
* (g) That the Ministry of Health be urged to provide additional financing for the Toronto<br />
Hospital to implement safe non-incineration technologies for the disposnl of their<br />
biomedical waste.<br />
2. That the Board of Health request a status report from the Toronto Hospital before the<br />
Hospital implements the proposed cosmetic retrofit of the Toronto Western- Hospital<br />
incinerator.<br />
1<br />
* 3. That £he Board of Health demand the Toronto Hospital and other Toronto hospitals<br />
practise waste separation so that they burn only waste for which incineration is the only<br />
option.<br />
4. That the Medical Officer of Health request an inventory of quantity and source of all<br />
waste burned at the Toronto Western Hospital.<br />
5. That the Minister of Health be requested to release funds to the Toronto Hospital and<br />
other hospitals, as quickly as possible, in order that hospitals may implement changes to their<br />
waste management stream. -<br />
6. That the MediCal Ofticer of Health be requested to write to the Hospital ·Council of<br />
Metropolitan Toronto to obtain more information on the Booth Street Laundry pilot program<br />
and any environm~ntal programs the hospital council is currently undertaking.<br />
7. That the Medical Officer of Health be requested to obtain information on the terms of<br />
reference of the Hospital Council of Metropolitan Toronto.<br />
8. That the Medical Ofticer of Health be requested to write to the Ontario Medical Association<br />
and the Canadian Medical Association to request details of any activities designed to<br />
increase p~ysicians' awareness and knowledge of appropriate biomedical waste disposal.<br />
These motions then went to City Council <strong>Jun</strong>e 15 and 16, because the Board is a committee<br />
of City Council. City Council adopted all of the Board of Health's motions except the<br />
ones with asterisks--i.e. numbers 1 (a), 1 (d), I (g), and 3. These four were referred back to<br />
the Board of Health, at the instigation of Ward' 3 Councillor Tony 0 'Donohue. The Board<br />
will hear further deputations on these either July 16 or August 20. At this second meeting the<br />
remaining AH1 recommendations will be measured head-to-head against the recommendations<br />
of the City's Medical Offic;er of Health (MOH) whose own report on biomedical inci~:~eration<br />
came to the Board <strong>Jun</strong>e 25 and was held over for deputations. The same time. The MOH is<br />
also sharply critical of existing standards for medical incinerators and specifically critical of<br />
the Western incinerator. But he argues for one state-of-the-art "regional" incinerator at some<br />
Toronto hospital. Members of AHI (Kensington) fear that Western will put itself in the running<br />
for this "regional" facility. .<br />
David Allen of the Toronto Hospital reacted somewhat favourably to the MOHs report,<br />
saying that the hospital is "looking forward to the debate" over that report. But he was<br />
critical of the motions passed by the Board of Health and City Council. "They do not<br />
understand the issue facing all hospitals in Toronto" he said "that we need an alternative to<br />
incineration and there is no alternative. They do not recognize that there needs to be a<br />
solution in place before adopting motions like these. " . .<br />
"There are solutions" responded John Wilbur of AH1. "But can you see the hospital<br />
giving any of them a chance while they can make money burning biomedical waste for other<br />
hospitals? Without political actions like those taken by council and the board of he,alth, the<br />
hospital will drag its heels forever. Even the MOH's report states clearly that there are<br />
effective safe alternatives to incineration. ' ·<br />
Report by David Per.lman!DRUM Staff<br />
DRUM DATES AND DEADLINES<br />
PUBLICATION DATES: PUBLICATION DATES* DEADLINES:<br />
FALL/WINTER <strong>1992</strong> SPRING/SUMMER 1993 Usually 10 days prior to<br />
AUGUST 20 JANUARY 28 - publication.<br />
OCTOBER 1 MARCH 11 lrtquire to<br />
NOVEMBER 5 APRIL 29, JUNE 3 363-DRUM<br />
I<br />
DECEMBER 10<br />
*projected<br />
phone or fax<br />
'<br />
'<br />
25 Augusta Avenue, site of<br />
rezoning application to put<br />
housing in the rear. See<br />
notice of J1leeting, next page.<br />
NEWSNEWSNEWSNEWS~~SNEWSNEWSNEWSNEWS<br />
ROUNDUPROUNDUPROUNDUPROUNDUPROUNDU<br />
I<br />
SIX WEEK SHUTDOWN<br />
PLANNED FOR OLD SMOKEY,<br />
IF PROVINCE COMES<br />
THROUGH WITH CASH<br />
THE TORONTO HOSPITAL IS SEEKING<br />
ABOUT $100,000 TO REPAIR THE<br />
WESTERN HOSPITAL INCINERATOR. IF<br />
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH GIVES<br />
THEM THE MONEY, THE INCINER<br />
ATOR WOULD CLOSE FOR ABOUT SIX<br />
WEEKS.<br />
BUT THE REPAIR Is CONTROVER<br />
SIAL.<br />
THE CONSULTANT WHO WROTE<br />
THE REPORT RECOMMENDING THE<br />
REPAIR SAYS IT WILL RESULT IN A<br />
"DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN POLLU<br />
TION AS WELL AS VISUAL POLLU<br />
TION" FROM THE STACK. THE CON<br />
SULTANT DESCRIBED THE WORK AS<br />
BEING SIMILAR TO GIVING A CAR A<br />
TUNE-UP.<br />
CITY COUNCIL AND THE BOARD<br />
OF HEALTH HAVE BOTH PASSED<br />
MOTIONS DESCRIBING THE PROPOSED<br />
REPAIR AS "COSMETIC" A VIEW<br />
- SHARED BY MEMBERS OF AHI (KEN<br />
SINGTON) WHO POINT OUT THAT<br />
EVEN WITH THESE REPAIRS, THE<br />
INCINERATOR WILL NOT MEET STAN<br />
DARDS FOR AN INCINERATOR BUILT .<br />
AFTER 1986.<br />
LEONARD AVENUE GARAGE<br />
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS<br />
PEOPLE USED TO WEEKEND PARKING<br />
IN THE HOSPITAL GARAGE AT<br />
LEONARD AND NASSAU WILL HAVE<br />
TO GO ONE BLOCK FURTHER WEST.<br />
!HE GARAGE IS CLOSED FOR<br />
REPAiRS. SEE AD, NEXT PAGE.<br />
THE GARAGE SITE. THIS REPAIR, HE<br />
SAID, HAD TO BE DONE NOW<br />
BECAUSE THE GARAGE - IS BADLY<br />
CORRODED BY SALT AND" IS STKUC<br />
.TURALL Y UNSAFE.<br />
87 BELLEVUE: "SLIMY" REAL<br />
ESTATE RUMOUR<br />
SCARING UP SALES<br />
SOME PEOPLE LIVING IN KENSING<br />
TON NEAR 87 BELLEVUE AVENUE<br />
(SEE ARTICLE NEXT PAGE) ARE<br />
BEING PANICKED INTO PUTTING<br />
THEIR HOMES UP FOR SALE.<br />
AGENTS FOR AT LEAST ONE<br />
LOCAL REAL ESTATE COMf'ANY<br />
HAVE BEEN KNOCKING ON DOORS<br />
GIVING FALSE INFbRMATION ABOUT<br />
THE PLAN FOR 87 BELLEVUE. ONE<br />
VERSION OF THE RUMOUR IS THAT<br />
THE BUILDING WILL BE A "GOVERN<br />
MENT HOUSING PROJECT WITH 42<br />
APARTMENTS, WHICH WILL ADD A<br />
LOT OF TRAFFIC TO THE STREET."<br />
IN FACT THE PROJECT WILL BE PRI<br />
VATE NONPROFIT HOUSING, SUPER<br />
VISED BY THE HOMES FIRST<br />
SOCIETY. THERE WILL BE 28 APART<br />
MENTS. HALF OF THESE WILL BE<br />
FOR PEOPLE REFERRED BY SiSTER/NO<br />
AT 181 BATHURST (SEE ARTICLE<br />
PAGE 8-9). THE 9THER HALF WILL<br />
BE PEOPLE RECOMMENDED AND<br />
SUPPORTED BY THE CORNER DROP<br />
IN, THE ST. STEPHEN'S-UNJTED<br />
WAY AGENCY AT 203 AUGUSTA<br />
AVENUE.<br />
THE VAST MAJORITY OF RESI<br />
DENTS WILL NOT OWN MOTOR<br />
VEHICLES.<br />
NEIGHBOURHOOD PEOPLE WANT<br />
ING ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT<br />
THE PROJECT CAN CONTACT GRACE<br />
OLLERHEAD, HOMES FIRST SOCIETY<br />
AT 362-2827.<br />
ST ANDREW WIDENING STILL<br />
STIRRING UP FEELINGS<br />
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS<br />
PROCEEDING WITH TENDERS FOR<br />
THE WIDENING OF ST ANDREW<br />
STREET WHILE RESIDENTS AND<br />
BUSAINESSES ON THE SOUTH SIDE<br />
TRY TO GET SUPPORT FOR WIDENING<br />
A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE HOSPI- LESS ON BOTH SIDES. THE WIDENING<br />
TAL SAID THE REPAIR HAS NOTHING HAS BEEN DECLARED NECESSARY BY<br />
TO DO WITH EARLIER PLANS TO THE PARKING AUTHORITY AS A<br />
EXPAND THE GARAGE. HE REFUSED PRECONDITION FOR EXPANDING THE<br />
TO COMMENT ON THE "HYPOTHETI- KENSINGTON GARAGE, AND WAS<br />
CAL QUESTION" WHETHER THE ALSO IDENTIFIED AS NECESSARY<br />
WORK BEING DONE NOW WOULD DURING SPADINA LRT ENGINEERING<br />
HELP OR HINDER FUTURE PLANS FOR STUDIES.
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Kensington Market DRUM<br />
NEWS<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong>/Page Three<br />
LRT=Long Rows of Trees?<br />
Nope--Last Round of Talks·<br />
by David Perhnan<br />
The Spadina streetscape design goes public in late July.<br />
TIC/Metro have officially received the Minister of the Environment's conditions for<br />
approval of a Spadina streetcar and Du Toit, Allsopp, Hillier, the TIC's streetscape<br />
design consultants, hired last fall, are back on the job. They are developing a "preliminary<br />
concept" for the street (i.e.- the general design and layout of pedestrian amenities,<br />
street furnishings, trees, lights, etcetera, as well as platform design and access).<br />
Word has it that they are including trees wherever possible 1 although at this stage they<br />
are not looking at the specific location of every tree. That will be done by them or<br />
another consultant in late fall. Rather, they will show general locations for trees given<br />
the constraints (pedestrian movement, underground utilities, road salt, etc.).<br />
The consultants are planning a Community Workshop in late July to show the plan and<br />
get community input. Invited to the workshop will be all the people who participated in<br />
their "working groups," (North, Central and South). The workshop is tentatively<br />
, scheduled for University Settlement House, on July 23. ·<br />
Other interested residents and business people are free to attend. But the consultants<br />
want very specific community input at this stage and so prefer to work with people who<br />
have followed the process to date. They are not equipped to deal with large crowds in<br />
a public meeting format: rather they wish to discuss local issues with small groups of<br />
Spadina residents and business people. ··· .<br />
Nev~rtheless, interested people can call Peter Dean or Riz Ibrahim or Lawler/Dean<br />
Research at 362-4800 for further information about the Community Workshop.<br />
Next Steps: After this workshop, the consultants will prepare a draft report incorporating<br />
community input, and present this concept back to the same group in late September.<br />
They will submit a final report to both Metro and City councils in October.<br />
87 Bellevue A venue<br />
A DIFFERENT KIND OF RENOVATIONS PROJECT<br />
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· · · ·••9Y: t••'XiJt~ ·····'"·~~ ····ll~N:~~~. ····<br />
KENSINGTON PLACE IS KATE'S PLACE<br />
WHEN SHE'S HERE BUT .SHE ISN'T.<br />
WATCH FOR ART-FOR-ARTSAKE IN<br />
. I<br />
AUGUST, UNLESS YOU KNOW WHEN<br />
KATE'S ELECTIVE BIRTHDAY IS, IN<br />
WHICH CASE, SAYS KATE,<br />
SEE YOU JULY l ... FOR AN ENCORE<br />
You are Invited to Attend a<br />
Planning Advisory Committee<br />
PUBLIC MEETING<br />
Wednesday, July, 8, <strong>1992</strong>, at 7:00p.m.<br />
at Ryerson Public School, 96 Denison Avenue<br />
Notice of a proposal to Amend Official Plan and Zoning<br />
By-Law Re: 25 Augusta Avenue<br />
The Site<br />
The site is located on the east side of Augusta A venue,<br />
north of Queen Street West.<br />
The Proposal<br />
To construct a five-storey, 41-unit social housing project<br />
at 25 Augusta A venue. The project will be connected<br />
to the existing historically designated house, and<br />
will replace the existing vacant two-storey building at<br />
the rear of the site.<br />
Purp·ose of the meeting<br />
The Public Meeting will provide ari opportunity for<br />
members of the public to review, ask questions and<br />
make comments on the proposal.<br />
Ifyou cannot attend, you can still make your views<br />
known by writing to the Chairperson, City of Toronto<br />
Planning Advisory Committee, 2nd. floor, City Hall,<br />
Toronto, Ontq.rio, . M5H 2N2.<br />
Further Information<br />
If you would like further information<br />
or a copy of the Preliminary Report which describes<br />
the proposal in more detail, please contact<br />
SUSANNE PR}NGLE at 392-7740, ·<br />
City of Toronto Planning and Development.<br />
by Thierry Le Brun<br />
There is a renovation project currently going on at<br />
87 Bellevue A venue. This is a large, aging structure<br />
at the edge of the market which has gone<br />
through several incarnations during its extensive<br />
life time, the latest as , the headquarters of the<br />
Church of Unification. Right now, it is owned by<br />
the Homes First Society which is redoing it for<br />
non-profit housing in conjunction with St. Step_hen's<br />
Community House.<br />
What is remarkable about the project' is the<br />
work crew. Most of the men working on the<br />
renovations were not recruited from lists of<br />
workers kept by general contractors. They were<br />
hired straight out of "the Corner," St. Stephen's<br />
Community House's drop-in centre for people<br />
with little or no income, at 203 Augusta Avenue.<br />
These were men with skill and experience, mostly<br />
in constru
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Page Four/<strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong><br />
EDITORIAL/LETTERS<br />
Kensington Market DRUM<br />
DRUM<br />
Talking<br />
DRUM<br />
note from the publishers<br />
We're going into our fourth year now:<br />
the summer is always an anniversary ofsorts<br />
for us. In some ways it's hard to<br />
believe that it's been that long. In<br />
· other ways it's impossible to believe<br />
it's been that little.<br />
Big changes ahead for our community<br />
and DRUM, we think, in the years<br />
ahead.<br />
To the people helping carry DRUM to<br />
the areas we're new to, our thanks. To<br />
those new readers, welcome. One big<br />
challenge we face in the coming year is<br />
trying to reach more people with the<br />
same number of papers, rather than<br />
simply printing more copies. (So ifyou<br />
live somewhere where two DRUMS go<br />
where one would do, please let us<br />
know. By the same token, if one is too<br />
many, tell us) '<br />
This month sees fifteen new members<br />
in DRUM's directory, surely a record<br />
since our very early days. This month<br />
sees too the adven(of five new<br />
sustaining members--organizations or<br />
concerns that use DRUM regularly<br />
enough that they have an interest in<br />
reserving blocks of space on a yearly<br />
basis. More about sustaining membership<br />
next time.<br />
For now, happy holidays, eh. Ifwe<br />
keep our little worlds strong and<br />
connected, maybe the larger ones will<br />
also stick.<br />
cu)._\)~~"'<br />
~~~4_3u~~<br />
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Letters to DRUM<br />
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published. Unless stated here, lettet·s are published in their entirety.<br />
HELP CREATE<br />
A CITY FOR<br />
CIDLDREN<br />
(Safe City Play Space)<br />
Dear DRUM:<br />
Gradually over the last several<br />
decades we have given over more<br />
and more of the city to cars - now<br />
up to 50% of Toronto's space is<br />
largely devoted to this major cause<br />
of urban pollution (air, space,<br />
noise). Toronto now has the distinction<br />
of being the most polluted<br />
of cities of its size in North<br />
America.<br />
At the end of May, I participated<br />
in the second International Auto<br />
Free Cities' Conference which<br />
took place at the Board of Education<br />
(we also used City · Hall,<br />
Metro Archives and, of course, the<br />
Island - one of North America's<br />
few auto-free spaces.)<br />
We focussed a lot on children as<br />
the biggest losers in the struggle to<br />
limit cars. Dr. John Adams, a<br />
U.K. writer and geographer, spoke<br />
at the "Children First'' workshop<br />
and other forums about how the<br />
unchecked spread of the car has<br />
driven children off the streets into<br />
their homes where young imaginations<br />
are shaped by often violent<br />
television rather than direct experience<br />
(See One False Move, A<br />
Study of Children's Indepemlent<br />
Mobility.)<br />
Our ' concern in downtown<br />
Toronto, is that few steps are<br />
being taken to limit car use, despite<br />
City Council's wish to dramatically<br />
reduce emissions in the<br />
next few years. Children are most<br />
hurt - asthma, bronchial and lung<br />
disorders particularly hurt them ~<br />
but also children are ignored as<br />
City space is converted, not to<br />
parks and playgrounds, but rather<br />
to parking lots and increasingly<br />
congested and dangerous roads.<br />
Children in North Jarvis (30-35<br />
Charles) got a five-storey parking<br />
lot instead of a park; Sussex-Ulster<br />
children are still waiting for a<br />
traffic plan to make their streets<br />
safer; on the Waterfront, with too<br />
many roads, the City still has not<br />
dedicated a bicycle lane on<br />
Queen's Quay to serve young<br />
citizens; St. Lawrence children<br />
will suffer from the failure to close<br />
a small section of the Esplanade so<br />
that they will have direct surface<br />
access to the playground for the<br />
new Market Lane School.<br />
This sad list of the failure to<br />
serve Toronto children goes on<br />
and on. At the Board we are hoping<br />
. to make some real changes in<br />
putting young children first in<br />
determining use of City space.<br />
Recently we passed a motion at the<br />
Environmental Issues Committee<br />
asking that the Board work with<br />
the City to create play streets for<br />
children (particularly in park-deficient<br />
areas). As well, we will be<br />
meeting this summer to plan how<br />
local community schools may be<br />
reinforced th_rough developing safe<br />
cycling and walking routes to<br />
school for children.<br />
At the end of his book, John<br />
Adams reminds us of the United<br />
Nations Convention on the Rights<br />
of the ChiJd (1990) which requires<br />
that children be given first call on<br />
society's concerns and capacities. ·<br />
Wf? have a long way to go to<br />
realize this in downtown Toronto.<br />
Let me know if you would like to<br />
help in this struggle. 591-8044<br />
Ward 5, 6 Trustee Joan Doiron<br />
(<br />
PANHANDLERS HARASSING US, MERCHANT SAYS<br />
Dear DRUM -<br />
There has always been the odd homeless<br />
pe11son walking the streets of Kensington<br />
Market. But things are definitely getting out of<br />
hand. Make no mistake, these people do need<br />
help but bringing them to Kensington to hang<br />
out on the streets and get readily available<br />
cooking wine from the Baldwin St. grocer is<br />
not the answer. The police have gone some<br />
way in handling the complaints and clearing<br />
them from back alleys and other places they<br />
find themselves, but this is not a solution. I'm<br />
sure the fire dept. are tired of being called in<br />
with medics to handle the reports of intoxicated<br />
individuals requiring assistance.<br />
Market shoppers are constantly being harassed<br />
by panhandlers. On just one walk along<br />
. Baldwin Street I was asked for money four<br />
times. Other people were also repeatedly<br />
approached for cash. I am sure that market<br />
shoppers do not enjoy being harassed this way<br />
-who would. The worry is these people won't<br />
return. People come here to save money and<br />
enjoy the market. All that I'm saying is all of<br />
this is not good for Kensington. I'm tired of<br />
1M JUSf 5AYIN~<br />
BE 'f!AU Of<br />
WHAT YOU ijAVf<br />
AT T»E MOMENT<br />
walking over drunken bodies while coming<br />
and going through the stairwells of St. Andrew<br />
parking lot So are a lot of people.<br />
I'd like to take this opportunity to ask the<br />
drop-in centre on Augusta A venue run by St.<br />
Stephens to help alleviate this problem.<br />
The centre should take some responsibility<br />
to find a remedy. Let them start by asking<br />
these unfortunates who use their facility to stop<br />
harassing the public [while drunk and<br />
panhandJing], in Kensington.<br />
We in Kensington Market are a tolerant<br />
bunch, but when business starts to suffer and<br />
customers complain something has to be done.<br />
In order to curb the panhandling and drunken-<br />
- ness in the neighbourhood, I want to ask the<br />
public to refrain from contributing their money<br />
to what is a larger social problem. I feel this<br />
would ultimately help everyone to address the<br />
larger picture and would go a long way to<br />
support prosperity in a struggling marketplace.<br />
a concerned merchant<br />
Roberto Agricola<br />
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Stan~<br />
by Allan Schwam<br />
The Bad Old Days?<br />
~oint<br />
(WHEN WAGES WERE $1200 A YEAR<br />
--AND A HOUSE COST $2800)<br />
What will things be like when times get better and the current recession<br />
ends?<br />
Will there be a return to tax-underwritten corporate mergers cmd<br />
leveraged buy-outs? Will inflation come roaring back and the foundation for<br />
new credit and banking frauds be laid?<br />
Will real estate a/l(J housing prices zoom up by 30% a year and wage and<br />
salary increases in selected industries and professions rise by 10% per<br />
annum and will government tax revenues once again soar?<br />
For many people this was "normalcy" in the 1970s and especially in the<br />
1980s. ·<br />
In 1968, my colleague Ken Wright and I engaged in discussions and<br />
correspondence with the Economic Council of Canada in which _We<br />
challenged their conclusion that the economy was producing increasing<br />
wealth for the majority of Canadians.<br />
"You folks are measuring inflation and calling it prosperity," we charged.<br />
"Oh no. Oh Canada, everything is really for the best, in the best of all<br />
possible worlds" they assured us. ·<br />
(I think they may have changed their minds this year. The Federal<br />
government abolished the Economic Council on the grounds that not only<br />
had they not defined prosperity accurately, they had failed to predict the<br />
recession and didn't know what to do about it when it happened. "<br />
One would think that over time it would be relatively easy to know if<br />
you and your family were financially better or worse off.<br />
Well, over time you will of course know. But it takes a lot of discipline and<br />
hard reasoning to do so.<br />
'<br />
Let me cite the case of my dad, a factory garment worker on Spadina<br />
Avenue 50 years ago. When war broke out in 1939 work in clothing factories<br />
became more plentiful.<br />
Even though wage increases were banned by law (as were price increases)<br />
the fact that garment workers could earn wages on a 10-12 month basis<br />
instead of the previous 6-8 month period meant that real incomes went up.<br />
Instead of making $10-/2.50 a week median wage before 1939<br />
(assuming you could find work) median wages increased to $25 a week -<br />
just under $1200 a year.<br />
These numbers will likely sound ridiculously low to most readers, but<br />
look at what that small amount of cash income could buy.<br />
By 1942, less than three years after the better pay started to come in, my<br />
parents were able to save $600 (on a single income, because my mother did<br />
not work) and that became the down payment for the house on Oxford Street<br />
that /live in today. Total cost of that house in July 1942? $2,800.<br />
Forget the actual numbers; they mean little. The meaningful question<br />
is, can a single income family in <strong>1992</strong> save enough money in three years to<br />
afford the down payment· oti a six room 2-storey detached house in downtown<br />
Toronto? Could a t}vo-income family do it? And could they afford the<br />
carrying charges necessary to pay for the full cost of the house, over 25 or<br />
30 years?<br />
If the answers to these questions for the majority of people today is<br />
in the negative, then we must seriously question in what way and to what<br />
degree people are really better off than they were generations ago.<br />
As I mentioned at the outset, it is not a simple task.<br />
In physics and astronomy for example, scientists have a technique for<br />
determining whether an object, even though it be billions of miles away, is .<br />
moving closer to the earth or whether it is receding away from us.<br />
No such determination appears to be available in economics. Since<br />
all governments must claim that they are making life better for the people<br />
than their predecessors did, one wonders if the failure to develop such an<br />
important determinant is fundamental and technical or if it really isn't<br />
political.<br />
And.now let me project the example of my father to a more<br />
generalized and frightening level, based on my own experience.<br />
In 1958, I was taken on as an apprentice management traiizee with one of<br />
the largest land development companies in Canada, headquartered in<br />
Toronto.<br />
At that time over 60% of the people in Toronto owned their homes<br />
and about 40% rented. Today those figures are reversed. Fewer than 40% of<br />
the people in Toronto own their own homes and more than 60% rent.<br />
Those figures represent a shift in the distribution of wealth of<br />
trillions of dollars -- a shift away from the general population and towards a<br />
much smaller base ofprivate landlords, trust companies, banks, insurance<br />
companies and other investment holding groups, including government<br />
agencies who are today the largest single owners of housing stock in the ·<br />
country.<br />
If you visit the natural wonder of the Florida Everglades in the<br />
United States, naturalists will tell you that a ONE INCH DIFFERENCE in<br />
the topography determines what kind of trees and vegetation can grow.<br />
. Can you imagine what a 20% shift in the economic environment<br />
means for the wealth ownership and more importantly, the wealth<br />
distribution of the people?<br />
Well, it means little good for ordinary folk today and even less good<br />
for [heir children .<br />
..... NEXT COLUMN: MORE ON WEALTH, HOMES AND WHAT THE<br />
GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO WITH ITS PUBLIC HOUSING STOCK.<br />
VIEWS<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong>/Page Five<br />
At Cine Cycle<br />
we handle<br />
more·<br />
breali.downs<br />
ina day than<br />
Freud did in<br />
a Jifetinte.
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ENVIRONMENT<br />
Kensington l\farket DRUM<br />
FROM<br />
BLEACHED<br />
AND<br />
lJNRECYCLED<br />
by FRANK SCHERER<br />
SUNNYSIDE<br />
Although fully aware of the serious·<br />
recession we · are undergoing,<br />
he is not too pessimistic. He<br />
smiled, when the conversation<br />
came to economic matters. Ozone<br />
depletion? In a way, he Jis already<br />
prepared, having extended his<br />
commercial activities to the sundeck<br />
business, which means<br />
umbrellas and so on. His laughter,<br />
when: he asked me, if I had heard<br />
about the gardeners of the park<br />
around the corner. No? T1wy have '-<br />
been handed out a sun cap each<br />
for this summer, for the sunny .<br />
side. And the ozone, .he explained,<br />
you make it. Every time you wash<br />
your hands and you dry them, you<br />
are generating ozone. That simple.<br />
He suggests to send a space shuttle<br />
up there, like the Columbia, producing<br />
the needed quantity in the<br />
depleted spot. And there you go.<br />
Think.<br />
Frank Scherer was born in Germany<br />
in 1956. After leaving school<br />
at an early age he travelled extensively<br />
through Europe, Africa and<br />
both Americas. He is living and<br />
working now in Toronto, expressing<br />
in this booklet a first literary<br />
effort in English. ·<br />
For information on how to<br />
obtain a copy of Bleached and<br />
Unrecycled, call or write Marty<br />
c/o DRUM.<br />
:::=~~~if.{ff;~'-~~~;:.~~i~~i~1:t~~~it.~f.~~~.~i~iilil;l;~~~::J<br />
OTHER PEOPLE'S MAIL , The most cost effective and efticient use of the<br />
Editors' note. Merchants and 0thers in the market are<br />
1 Duffer in site would be for Metro to compost clean<br />
looking forward to the, we hope, not-too-distant day source separated organic matter, collected from stores<br />
when we have effective separation of cardboard and and restaurants. Metro's pilot project, collecting waste<br />
compostable matter in the Kensington Market.<br />
from households, is by comparison both less efticient<br />
Anyone interested inthe idea should note, and take and cost effective.<br />
heart from, the following exchange of letters between Could you please let us know by Wednesday <strong>Jun</strong>e<br />
members of the IT'S NOT GARBAGE COALITION and lOth whether or not the materials we delivered were or<br />
the Metro Commissioner of Works.<br />
will be composted at the Dufferin Composting Facil-<br />
.. ity.<br />
Letter 1<br />
Monday <strong>Jun</strong>e 8, <strong>1992</strong><br />
Yours Sincerely,<br />
Commissioner R. F,erguson<br />
. Metropolitan Works Department<br />
19th floor, 439 University Ave.<br />
Toronto, ON M5G 1 Y8<br />
Dear Commissioner Ferguson,<br />
On Friday <strong>Jun</strong>e 5, It's Not Garbage delivered six<br />
clear bags full of thirty pounds of clean fo.od scraps to<br />
the Dufferin Composting facility in Downsview. In an<br />
accompanying letter the Metro Works Department was<br />
requested to compost the materials. Material delivered<br />
to Dufferin was . clean, SOl!rce separated vegetables and<br />
bones from a fundraiser at Toronto City Hall which<br />
attracted over 5,000 people. Other material was collected<br />
from a food market on Queen St. West and was<br />
comprised of carrot, corn and fruit peelings and rinds.<br />
It's Not Garbage believes that composting discarded<br />
·commercial food and oth~r organic materials should be<br />
a top priority in Metro Toronto's Waste Management<br />
Program. Responding to Metro's Garbage Cris'is,<br />
Councillors have adopted, in principle, an action<br />
agenda to begin broad-based materials diversion pro~<br />
grams. Mandatory source separation and community<br />
, based siting for composting plants were two key points<br />
· leading to an increased role from Metro in composting<br />
commercial and industrial food materials.<br />
' Debbie Field<br />
cc:<br />
Brooke Bell<br />
Works Committee Members<br />
Director, Dufferin Composting Facility<br />
Letter 2<br />
12 <strong>Jun</strong>e <strong>1992</strong><br />
IT'S NOT GARBAGE<br />
401 Richmond Street West<br />
Suite 104<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
M5V 3A8<br />
Attention: Debbie Field ·<br />
Brooke Bell<br />
Re: Composting Program<br />
We are in receipt of your letter dated <strong>Jun</strong>e 8, <strong>1992</strong>,<br />
requesting confirmation that the organic waste collected<br />
on <strong>Jun</strong>e 6, <strong>1992</strong> was processed.<br />
In answer to your qtiestion, the material deli'vered to<br />
our Dufferin Composting Facility was processed at<br />
that facility.<br />
R.G. Ferguson, P. Eng.<br />
Commissioner<br />
/ww<br />
ODE TO MR. REW<br />
Leaning over the fence,<br />
He watered my garden,<br />
Caring as though it were his.<br />
With a smile he shared his wisdom: ·<br />
Introduced me to the potato world,<br />
Told me when to plarit my sweet peas.<br />
We grew together,<br />
With our garden ..<br />
His grin always greeted my dogs,<br />
Even when they upturned the soil.<br />
Unfailingly, he was a friend,<br />
More reliable than the S\.Jn.<br />
Except this one time.<br />
This time he didn't return.<br />
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OAC II<br />
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A bv. M. 11 Health: a community base<br />
mma a er - .<br />
West Central Community Health Ce~tres<br />
held its AGM recently. Our topic for the<br />
evening was on issues around mental<br />
health. I could not help but ponder how<br />
many of our social issues are related to<br />
mental health and, how many mental<br />
health issues are precipitated by social<br />
situations, and how increasingly<br />
important community based support<br />
services are.<br />
Homelessness is a case in hand. It<br />
may not take much to lose a home. A job<br />
lost due to Frye Trade or the recession,<br />
could quickly lead to the family home<br />
having to be sold, and in this market it<br />
would likely sell at a loss. For many<br />
women escaping an abusive relationship<br />
has been the beginning of a slippery<br />
slope. After the refuge of a shelter time<br />
comes to find a place of one's own. It is<br />
difficult to rent with children, and<br />
sometimes a mother may lose her<br />
children to CAS because she cannot<br />
provide a home for them . Even without<br />
children it is difficult. The landlord wants<br />
references from previous landlords, and<br />
if you have not rented before you don't<br />
have references. When she does find a<br />
place to rent there is the problem of tirst<br />
and last month's rent.<br />
A common problem for women is<br />
sexual harassment by landlords. If she<br />
exercises her right to press charges she<br />
may be further victimised until she<br />
leaves, or she may just leave to avoid the<br />
situation. Because of the cost of moving<br />
or storage, each move means leaving<br />
behind furniture and many belongings<br />
that were hard to come by and starting<br />
over again. It does not take too long for<br />
a person's energy and motivation to be<br />
depleted. Remember that she came into<br />
this downward spiral already eroded and<br />
with damaged self esteem, and her<br />
energy was already largely spent in<br />
LIVING<br />
getting out of the initial unhealthy<br />
situation.<br />
The constant stress and insecurity do<br />
their work on her mental health. It takes<br />
an inordinately strong person not to be<br />
effected by such forces. Here, social<br />
issues are the cause of th~ mental health<br />
problems. The woman functioned well<br />
until she had to leave her original home.<br />
However, once the mental health<br />
problems manifest the chances of<br />
returning to a "normal" secure life are<br />
indeed slim, life as a marginalised person<br />
on the street is a more likely outcome.<br />
For such people adequate housing wilr go<br />
a long way towards restoring their<br />
balance and function.<br />
During the sixties and seventies<br />
there was a movement to deinstitutionalize<br />
p~ychiatric services. The<br />
concept was admirable, patients in<br />
insti'tutions would return and be<br />
integrated into the community and lead<br />
more normal lives. History recalls that<br />
the transition was far from successful<br />
because sufficient community based<br />
mental health services were not in place<br />
before patients were released. Many of<br />
these ex-psychiatric patients are still with<br />
us and swell the ranks of the homeless.<br />
Far from benefitting from the change<br />
many were unable to take care of<br />
themselves, and witho'ut the support and<br />
help they needed, they soon became<br />
casualties in society. Their mental health<br />
problems did not go away but became<br />
worse. For such. a homeless population<br />
adequate housing alone is only one part<br />
of the solution. Community supports<br />
around life skills, work _skills,<br />
appropriate health care etc. must also be<br />
in place to help sustain independent<br />
living.<br />
See cqMMUNITY LIVING, page I2<br />
PUBUCLY SPEAKING: A COLUMN FOR POUTlCAL PEOPU! PUBUC'LY SPEAKING: A COLUMN FOR POUTICAL PEOPLE PUBUCLY SPEAKING: A COLUMN<br />
NDP MAKING ONTARIO A BETTER<br />
PLACE TO WORK<br />
Rosario Marchese £<br />
MPP, Fort York ~<br />
The reform of our labour laws constitutes the centrepiece of the NDP government's ~<br />
agendafor economic justice, equality, and workers rights. I am happy to report ill<br />
d that after one of the most extensive consultations in Olltario 's history, on <strong>Jun</strong>e 4, ~<br />
~ the government unveiled its blueprint for an updated Labour Relations Act.<br />
~<br />
~ What is the gist of the reform and who will benefit from it? Essentially, the c<br />
E proposed changes to the Act aim to make it easier for workers .in the service,<br />
~<br />
j financial, and retail sector to organize. These changes are not forcing or inducing ~<br />
5 people to join a union. Under the old Act, many workers simply could not exercise i!i<br />
~ this freedom because of the many legal requirements that practically, though not .. ><br />
~ always technically; impeded unionization.<br />
~ Here are some of the highlights of the reform: ~<br />
~ • Part time workers can n;ore easily organize together with full time employees to ~<br />
~ make stronger, more effective bargaining units. . ~<br />
~ • Employees in small workplaces can organize and bargain more effectively ~<br />
~ through consolidation of two or more separate bargaining units represented by the ill<br />
;J same union. ' ~<br />
iii • Building cleaners, cafeteria workers and security guards are better protected in 1!<br />
~ their jobs, wages, benefits, and bargaining rights when their employer changes !:<br />
E (i.e. the contractor), but they continue to work at the same location. e ~<br />
j • Low-skill employees can organize more effectively because of new restrictions on ~<br />
5 the use of replacement workers during work stoppages. ~<br />
~ • Domestics are finally allowed to organize, and security guards can join the union ~<br />
~ of their choice. , ~<br />
~ •Newly organized employees have increased access to first-contact arbitration to ~<br />
~ facilitate collective bargaining. , ' £<br />
~ • All employees receive stronger legal protection against arbitrary discipline and ~<br />
~ discharge following official recognirion of a union or lawful participation in an g<br />
~ organizing campaign (fast-rrack hearings at the Labour Relations Board). ill<br />
d Because a substantial part of rhis reform affects workers in the !service, financial ~<br />
~ and retail sector where mosrly women, immigrants and part-time workers are 1!<br />
employed, the reform will have a fantastic impact on the lives of many Fort York<br />
§ residents. Our constituency has some of rhe largest immigrant communities in the "<br />
~ province and is the home to the largest employers in the sectors in question.<br />
In the long run, improved organizing rights will result in higher wages and<br />
~ better benefits for many workers, in less conflict and confrontation at the<br />
workplace, and in more cooperarion between unions and employers on workplace<br />
issues.<br />
It was time Ontario caughr up with Western Europe, Scandinavia and Japan,<br />
where legal provisions similar 10 those we just illlroduced have existed for at least<br />
two decades. The high standard of living and the economic success of these<br />
countries prove that srronger workers' rights we not antirherical to wealrh<br />
creation, but can actually increase economic performance.<br />
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§<br />
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<strong>Jun</strong>e 25 <strong>1992</strong>/Page Seven<br />
Got a screw loose? How about a flat tire?<br />
At Cine Cycle~ Toronto's only Bicycle store<br />
& Film Theatre~ we rtnderstand that bike<br />
troubles can be a traumatic experience.<br />
Which is precisely why we suggest you<br />
bring your troubles to us<br />
From re-alignments to faulty gears~ we've<br />
treated it all.<br />
So the next time you have a · breakdown~<br />
bring it to Cine Cycle. We'll have you back<br />
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en<br />
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In the laneway<br />
Dundas<br />
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Weekdays 10:00 to 7:00<br />
Saturday 9:00 to 5:00<br />
Closed Wednesday & Sunday<br />
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JOIN THE ACTION<br />
JOIN THE ACTION JOIN THE ACTION<br />
JJ (Q) ~ 1TIHIJE A CCilii (Q)N<br />
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SCR<br />
SISTERING: safety, sup]<br />
•JOIN THE ACTION<br />
INFORMATION PICKET<br />
IAT TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL<br />
~Main Bathurst Street Entrance<br />
Tuesday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 30,<br />
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.<br />
HELP US EDUCATE<br />
THE DOCTORS, STAFF AND PATIENTS ABOUT<br />
HOW THE HOSPITAL INCINERATOR IS<br />
POISONING THEM AND OUR COMMUNITY.<br />
Toronto Board of He.alth<br />
says:<br />
Shut It Down Now.<br />
You can Help!<br />
Bring your family - young and old - we<br />
all need cleaner air!<br />
Information Sheets, signs, balloons,<br />
music, and friends will be supplied<br />
Free!<br />
We will continue to picket the Toronto<br />
Hospital until the incinerator is shut<br />
down.<br />
DID YOU KNOW? ••<br />
• that the maximum a single woman on welfare can<br />
receive is $7, 146 a year.<br />
• that an adult working full-time at minimum wage<br />
only makes $10,080 a year.<br />
• that 60% of single. elderly women are poor<br />
• that 40% of women are physically abused by their<br />
. male partners<br />
• that 90% of all sexual assault victims are women<br />
SISTERING'S MISSION STATEMENT<br />
Sistering is a women's organization that offers practical<br />
and emotional support to women through programs<br />
which enable them to take greater control over their<br />
lives. Sistering works to change social conditions<br />
which endanger women's welfare.<br />
Every woman deserves a place Hihere she can feel safe<br />
and be respected. ·<br />
That's where Sistering comes in, through programs<br />
such as the Drop-In Centre, Outreach Program, and<br />
Sistering's Board, committees and special reports.<br />
Sistering helps and advocates for women traditionally<br />
forgotten by society: women who are homeless or live<br />
in poor housing conditions, older women, women who<br />
have low incomes, or are socially isolated.<br />
RUN BY WOMEN FOR WOMEN<br />
Sistering is a non-profit organization which is tinancially<br />
supported by government agencies, the United<br />
Way, and private contributions.<br />
Sisterlng's Drop-In Centre provides a refuge for homeless<br />
women who survive solely on the streets or have<br />
nowhere else to go during the day when the emergency<br />
shelters are closed. Located in the Scadding<br />
Court Community Centre at the corner of Bathurst and<br />
Dundas, the Drop-In Centre is a hub of activity seven<br />
days a week. At any given time you may see women<br />
playing cards, getting information, having a hot meal,<br />
or talking with each other.<br />
· Besides being a place where women's basic needs<br />
,such as food and clothing can be met, the Drop-In<br />
Centre is a place where women can also receive informal<br />
counselling and companionship in a nonjudgmental<br />
environment. Qualitied staff are also available<br />
in crisis situations to help women who are suicidal<br />
or severely depressed. All women are welcome!<br />
The Drop-In Centre is open every clay (weekends too!)<br />
from 9:00 - 3:30 (except on Thursday when it opens at<br />
10:30). \<br />
THE WOMEN WHO ATTEND SISTERlNG'S<br />
OUTREACH PROGRAM live in boarding/rooming<br />
houses or nursing homes~ have low incomes, and are · ,<br />
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of activities such as day trips, arts and<br />
recreation. It is very useful for immigli<br />
who, for example, may stay at home a<br />
of limited English skills. Older women<br />
have lost the support of family and frie<br />
from loneliness and would welcome th<br />
meet other people and participate in en<br />
ities.<br />
A unique feature of the Outreach pre<br />
transportation is available to and from<br />
women who would otherwise not be a6<br />
trip because of limited mobility or the I<br />
public transit. Sistering staff pick the<br />
morning in a van each morning and dr(<br />
their homes at the end of the day. Call<br />
Program at 588-3939 if you're interest~<br />
MUCH BEHIND-THE SCENES AD<br />
WORK AT SISTERING takes place i<br />
committees, which are small groups th ~<br />
meet about once a month and take part<br />
projects.<br />
The Social Action Committee, for exam<br />
•<br />
held a two-day advocacy workshop whe<br />
together to discuss ideas on how· to bri ~<br />
change. It regularly writes letters to go<br />
agencies urging them to act on issues si<br />
reform and safety for women. The Co<br />
Committee puts together a newsletter e<br />
If you don't know why, please ask us.<br />
For more information call<br />
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(Kensington):<br />
368-9190 or 368-0407.<br />
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·tal health. Other committees recruit staff and volunteers<br />
or plan fundraising activities.<br />
SISTERING HAS TAKEN PART IN SOME<br />
SPECIAL PROJECTS which have made a difference.<br />
The recent Sexual Abuse Project, for example, was an<br />
suffer in-depth study of the impact of sexual abuse in the<br />
-~ lives of the women who participate at Sistering and<br />
how Sistering is responding to their needs. Due for<br />
publication this summer is Sistering Celebrates<br />
Women, a special tribute book being put together to<br />
honour unique and extraordinary women, both wellknown<br />
and not well-known.<br />
VOLUNTEERS<br />
who work under the guidance and expertise of qualified<br />
staff members, are an important part of Sistering.<br />
They play a role in every aspect of the organization,<br />
from helping to ,prepare lunch at the Drop-In Cel)tre to<br />
contributing ideas at a committee meeting. --<br />
CALL SISTERING AT 861-1954<br />
or visit the oftice at 181 Bathurst (near Queen) if<br />
you're interested in becoming a volunteer, making a<br />
donation, dropping off articles such as clothing or<br />
household items or if you need more information.<br />
Story is by a Sister,ing volunteer<br />
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COMMUNITY<br />
Kensington Market DRUM<br />
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by Shelley Stringer<br />
FORGIVE AND FORGET<br />
You've probably heard the saying Forgive and Forget, but<br />
it doesn, 't always work. Sometimes it's berrer to just start<br />
over.<br />
It's been close to a year since I left home. The time<br />
I was there I resented my real parents and even after I was<br />
gone I hated them, but after a while I realiseq they are still<br />
my parents and I really love them.<br />
(I did a lot of stuff to them after I left, and in return they<br />
got me back.) But for a while I have been trying to get<br />
along with them. I don't want to moveback there,J just<br />
want them as friends. I know they are mad for what I did<br />
and put them through, but a lot of rime has passed since<br />
then. I don't regret doing the stuff I did. At the time I was<br />
upset at them but now I wish that my parents and I could<br />
get along.<br />
Who knows, maybe some day we will, maybe we<br />
won't. I'm not going to pressure them but I am going to<br />
try. I won't forgive and forget because I can't and I won't<br />
say I'm sorry for anything but I (im willing to start over<br />
with them slowly and ny to get'along, and maybe with luck<br />
we'll get along.<br />
Sometimes starting over is be!fer than forgiving and<br />
forgetting because pain and heartache all your life can't be<br />
forgiven or forgotten. All you can do sometimes is to let<br />
time pass and start over.<br />
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Flying level with KYTES: a chance to learn, earn and prepare<br />
by CURTIS B. MERCURY<br />
April 15, <strong>1992</strong> was the day I<br />
was released from Maplehurst<br />
Correctional Centre. The clay<br />
had finally come when I was<br />
walking the streets again. A<br />
few days of hanging out with<br />
my boys again made me start<br />
to think about what I was<br />
going to do before I ended<br />
back into jail. That's when I<br />
remembered about this .program<br />
called K ytes. You see a<br />
former troupe member told me<br />
about this program and it<br />
sound~d all right so ! gave<br />
them a call to set up my interview.<br />
I spoke with two people,<br />
Ned, who is our theatre director,.<br />
and Shar, who is our<br />
issues and barriers counsellor,<br />
they explained to me what the<br />
program is about and what<br />
they expected from ·me.<br />
May 4, <strong>1992</strong>, tirst day of<br />
work, a real job. My tirst real<br />
job in two years. Yes, two<br />
years. At Kytes we learn many<br />
different things, me~t different<br />
people, make new<br />
friends. We are sort of a family.<br />
The skills that I would<br />
learn at Kytes are great things<br />
such as theatre skills, basicjob<br />
skills, get some high schooj<br />
credits towards your diploma,<br />
carpentry experience.<br />
At the end of the program we<br />
put the skills that we've<br />
learned on stage into an acting<br />
production. Myself, I have<br />
learned ·how to listen to people .<br />
more. It sounds lame, ,but if<br />
you listen to Ned, our theatre<br />
director talk, you would know<br />
what I'm talking about. (He<br />
gets his point across to you<br />
very well.) He tells it straight<br />
up, no bull shit.<br />
September 25 <strong>1992</strong> the program<br />
will be tinjshecl. By that<br />
time we ~houlcl have developed<br />
enough skills to tincl our own<br />
job placement. Kytes is not for<br />
everybody. A few people have<br />
already left the program,<br />
maybe they felt it was not the<br />
right place for them. There is<br />
a long list of people who<br />
would like to be involved in<br />
Kytes, but the program is<br />
already full. Sorry!<br />
Myself, I will be here until the<br />
end of the program, because I<br />
enjoy what I'm doing. When I<br />
wake up every morning I want<br />
to go to work. Sometimes I am<br />
at Kytes before any of our<br />
staff or troupe members are<br />
there. I am very happy that I<br />
have been given the opportunity<br />
to gain the skills to find<br />
and keep a job. When I finish<br />
the Kytes program, I would<br />
like to get a position in recreation,<br />
but in the long run I am<br />
going to get into the Toronto<br />
Fire Department.<br />
There should be more<br />
programs such as Kytes. From<br />
what I have seen of people in<br />
the same situation as myself,<br />
out of school-out of work.<br />
Most of us do not really know<br />
what we want to do and programs<br />
such as Kytes point us<br />
in the right direction.<br />
Toronto Public Library Reading Club geared up<br />
and ready to transport kids<br />
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The long warm months of summer<br />
have long been considered the perfect<br />
time to dive into books of all kinds -<br />
especially for kids enjoying a break<br />
from the regular reading required during<br />
the rest of the school year.<br />
Supporting that idea -- and the notion<br />
that reading is one ·of the most enjoyable<br />
summer pastimes imaginable, Toronto<br />
Public Library annually sponsors a<br />
Summer Reading Club and this year the<br />
theme is time travel.<br />
Kids up to 12 years old, as well as<br />
young people older than that, are invited<br />
to Book a Trip Through Time to one of<br />
12 time/space destinations from ancient<br />
Greece, to early Canada, to the presentday<br />
adventures of astronaut Rober1a<br />
Bondar.<br />
The time travel theme was chosen<br />
because this is the 80th anniversary of<br />
service to boys a~d girls at the Toronto<br />
Public Library, and it was chosen<br />
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Monday to Saturday<br />
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as well because the whole country is<br />
celebrating 125 years of nationhood this<br />
year.<br />
Kids participating in the club receive<br />
a sturdy and attractive poster --which<br />
also doubles as a board game -- and<br />
they earn colourful stickers to paste on<br />
the poster as they read their way ·<br />
through a certain number of books<br />
during the summer. Attracti-ve book<br />
marks listing suggested books for reading,<br />
as well as certificates also support<br />
the program. , ·<br />
Most of the 33 branches of the<br />
Toronto Public Library system provide ·<br />
club activities throughout the summer.<br />
Registrations are accepted in the latter<br />
part of <strong>Jun</strong>e and throughout the summer,<br />
but posters and other materials are<br />
supplied on a first-come, first-served<br />
basis. Call or visit your local branch for<br />
details. For the local branch nearest<br />
you call 393-7565/67.<br />
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INTERACT<br />
Youth Theatre Trajning,<br />
Summer Camp '92,<br />
_ August 10-21<br />
2 weeks of intensive<br />
theatre training for<br />
youth, integrated with<br />
youth with df'velopmental<br />
disabilities<br />
ages 16-24<br />
Monday-Friday<br />
10:00-3:00<br />
For information call Gita<br />
at 363-5392<br />
Scadding Court,<br />
south-east corner,<br />
Bathurst and Dundas<br />
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1 Send ideas, articles, drawing etc. to<br />
l ALMA PENN, Kensington DRUM, P. 0. Box 67590<br />
· 576 Dundas Street West M5T 388. Or inquire by phone<br />
- or fax to (416) 363-DRUM.<br />
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Here's a game/toy you can make with little effort.<br />
But the challenge will really get you going.<br />
ODS.<br />
1. Cut out the game-board.<br />
. Now cut out nine game-pieces<br />
. Place the pieces on the board as shown:<br />
Rules<br />
1. All pieces have to stay on the board.<br />
2. You can move pieces up/down, or left/right.<br />
3. No diagonal moves.<br />
The challenge<br />
Get the big square from the top left hand corner to the bottom left hand corner.<br />
For example (and to get you started) the first three moves are as follows:<br />
1. Small square (SS) on 10 moves to 12.<br />
2. SS9 moves to 11.<br />
3. Large square (LS) on 1,2,5,6 moves to 5,6,9,10.<br />
4. Horizontal rectangle (HR) on 3,4 moves to 1 ,2.<br />
Solution in the August 20 paper. Have a happy summer!<br />
ST. STEPHEN'S<br />
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ANNOUNCES<br />
<strong>1992</strong><br />
SUMM-ER<br />
CAMP-<br />
BEST EVERst.<br />
Stephen's is once aga~n offering<br />
a summer day camp from July<br />
6 to August 28 in the heart of the<br />
market. The camp nins Monday to<br />
Friday ~:00 to 4:30 out of 293<br />
Augusta A venue and is open for<br />
all children aged 6 to 12 years old.<br />
The cost of attending the camp is<br />
$25 per week, but if a parent is<br />
unable to pay the full fee, subsidies<br />
are available.<br />
"This year's summer ca~p is the<br />
most innovative and exciting one<br />
to date," reports Allen Flaming,<br />
Community Services· Director.<br />
Unlike previous years, the camp<br />
will be run out of two store front<br />
sites on Augusta A venue, and not<br />
out of the Kensington Schoql gym.<br />
The staff are currently being hired<br />
and are busy preparing the summer<br />
schedule of day outings, arts<br />
and crafts, sports events and other<br />
recreational activities. Children<br />
)y ~~,<br />
( . .<br />
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will be rece1vmg a simple snack<br />
on a daily basis, but need to bring<br />
their own lunches.<br />
"Safety is a big concern for us<br />
and our extensive training schedule<br />
reflects our concerns," says Flaming.<br />
Every one of the staff will be<br />
certified in first aid and CPR as<br />
well as receiving extensive training<br />
in water safety, child development<br />
and anti-racism.<br />
Although the emphasis will be<br />
on having a safe time, fun, excitement,<br />
and learning are also big<br />
components of the camp. Trips are<br />
being planned to . go to Ontario<br />
Place, Centre Island, the Science<br />
Centre and the Zoo. The campers<br />
will be given a free hand at decorating<br />
the store fronts to make their<br />
space truly their own. A particularly<br />
creative staff will always<br />
have innovative ways to keep the<br />
children amused and challenged.<br />
For more information about the<br />
summer camp program, contact<br />
Teresa Emmanuel or Jessica Harrod<br />
at 920-8980 or drop in to talk<br />
with them at 293 Augusta A venue.<br />
Registration is Monday to Friday<br />
9~00 to 6:00, with a special registration<br />
time set up <strong>Jun</strong>e 29 and 30<br />
at 4:00 to 6:30. They will be<br />
thrilled to let you in on this year;s<br />
great summer time experience.<br />
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child care centre<br />
SNOWFLAKE CHfLDCARE CENTRE<br />
full and part-time spaces now available for<br />
children 21/2 to 5 years.<br />
A small non-profit daycare. Whole foods<br />
menu. Individual and creative development.<br />
Call 368-9124<br />
39 Carr Street, Toronto, Ontario<br />
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Make this a summer of fun and learning. The Toronto<br />
Board of Education has programs for everyone -<br />
elementary students, secondary students, and adults.<br />
• Sports<br />
• Swimming<br />
• New Credit Courses<br />
• Enrichment<br />
• Outdoor Activities<br />
• Parenting<br />
• English as a Second Language<br />
• Driver Education<br />
• Heritage languages<br />
• Literacy Classes<br />
• Seniors' Programs<br />
and more ...<br />
at the<br />
Toronto PublicLibrary this summer!<br />
Get a super n,ew poster, earn snazzy new<br />
stickers and join in fun activities in our<br />
Summer Reading Club.<br />
The fun begins in July!<br />
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For details and the branch nearest you call<br />
393-7567/65.<br />
We have 33 branches to serve you.<br />
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COIVIMUNITY<br />
Kensington Market DRUM<br />
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PAG~N WAY<br />
by Pamela A. Brown ,<br />
, F A!TH WITHIN<br />
Did you see the eclipse? It was a couple of weeks<br />
ago and the moon was full. How many of those do<br />
we get to see in our lifetime? How many comets have<br />
zoomed past the eartlYsince you were born? ·<br />
Spacetime. Imagine these comets, our planet and<br />
moon from a different perspective. They might look<br />
like molecules. Or atoms. Spiralling around in some<br />
immense and complex configuration. If you look at<br />
a baby's head you can see how hair grows in a spiral.<br />
Like a galaxy or a seashell. Spacetime Spirals.<br />
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The women gathered. They came in twos and threes<br />
across the sand. Children ran around in the sun.<br />
The first to arrive was Uncertainty. She was a little<br />
anxious, maybe even nervous. But she wanted to be<br />
there. Reaching out with careful hands she touched<br />
each one of us.<br />
Diplomacy arrived with Connection and sat<br />
with us in a circle on the grass. We asked for<br />
blessings from the mothers of Turtle Island. We told<br />
stories about our names and traded wisdom. Closing<br />
the circle we moved in groups toward the directions<br />
of our birth. Air, Fire, Water and Earth.<br />
We built an East altar at the base of a tree<br />
with candles, earth and things cherished. In the<br />
South, on the beach, we used stones, more candles<br />
and coloured threads. The West hailed delicate twigs<br />
and Oak Leaves from last Fall. In the North we had<br />
at least three decks of Tarot cards and a beautiful<br />
knife.<br />
As our shadows stretched, Collection and<br />
Weaving brought out their yarn and joined us<br />
together as sisters. We spoke, of our blood and<br />
enjoyed the mystery of our wombs.<br />
The moon came up full and orange over the<br />
lake. The fire burned high and voices echoed down<br />
the beach. Dancing shadows; the fire chan! we wrote<br />
that afternoon tangled our tongues until we laughed in<br />
unison. Leaping over the tire we held hands and<br />
made wishes for freedom and health. Compassion<br />
and the end of oppression. The children jumped the<br />
most, daring the tlames and proclaiming their<br />
birthrite. Spacetime Spiral Rituals. ~<br />
Uncertainty, Diplomacy, Connection, Collection and<br />
Weaving jumped the fire from tiye different<br />
directions and when they rejoined the circle there was<br />
a sixth woman among us.<br />
She didn' t have a name. She told stories<br />
with the children, beat the rhythms of the night on a<br />
drum and helped us decorate the tangled tree roots<br />
with candles. She brought us more sage and<br />
wormwood which we traded for with our jewellery:<br />
It was She who is Unnamed.<br />
We were there for the night. The kids were<br />
telling ghost stories with all their heads together,'<br />
their sleeping bags making a star on the ground. We<br />
gathered by the fire. Waves hit the beach, chuckling<br />
in the moonlight. We passed the sage and raised our<br />
voices till they vibrated in eachother's throats.<br />
Riding Her light we travelled.<br />
We didn't need brooms. The waves got<br />
· louder, the beach was not on the map anymore ami<br />
the moon had been full for millions of years. Every<br />
full moon for millions of years. Earth, Fire, Water<br />
and Air for MILLIONS OF YEARS.<br />
When I realize every full moon is connected to the<br />
last one, that every Spring brings buds on branches<br />
grown the year before, I learn a different way of<br />
living; tind alternate relationship with Time. It' s<br />
another strand in the Great Tapestry. An optional<br />
direction across Spacetime.<br />
After everyone had gone to their tents I sat with an<br />
old friend by the tire. The moon changed c·om;tantly.<br />
Dark clouds edged with silver drifted across the sky.<br />
The wind turned )Narmer, we got up and wandered<br />
down the beach looking for firewood to last us 'till<br />
dawn. Nightbirds slipped along the shore and the<br />
odd duck flapped across the moon. I heard voices in<br />
the waves.<br />
At dawn the most exquisite shade of<br />
turquoise graced the sky. A tlock of honking geese<br />
woke up the rest of the birds and the sun rose to their<br />
songs. Leaving the waking camp that morning I<br />
walked East down the beach. I found a branch that<br />
was white-yellow from the Sun and decided to take it<br />
home.<br />
I'm a Pagan apd this is all there is to me. Life.<br />
Knowing the ~ifeforce that tlows through everything.<br />
Taking as much responsibility for it as I can. If I'm<br />
sacred then I believe I have a conunitment to<br />
everything else that is sacred. You. Your brothers<br />
and sisters. That night, we all shared the ·<br />
responsibility and the power within us was at least<br />
threefold more than our number.<br />
While sanding the branch, I found a rabbit's face -in<br />
the grain. I carved runes into it and polished it with<br />
bee's wax. I named her Dawnwatcher and I'm taking<br />
it to the next festival.<br />
Last issue I wrote about Faith. My grandmother was<br />
right about recognizing it within. Blessed Be.<br />
COMMUNITY LIVING NEEDS<br />
NETWORK OF SUPPORT<br />
continued from page 7<br />
The importance of having community<br />
supports well in place before<br />
dismantling present systems or<br />
institutions is particularly relevant again<br />
today:<br />
The Ontario Government is<br />
presently working towards changing the<br />
direction of long term care for the<br />
elderly and infirm. Again the concept is<br />
admirable, to keep the elderly, infirm<br />
and disabled in their own homes with<br />
support for as long as possible, and to<br />
establi:;h community based facilities to<br />
respond to their housing, social and<br />
health care needs. Only the more<br />
disabled and sick would need beds in a<br />
long term care facility. The consultation<br />
process with community and agency<br />
groups was recently completed, and the<br />
Ministry is summarizing the tindings.<br />
We hope that the lesson from the mental<br />
health field in the seventies has been<br />
well learned, and that the institutions<br />
that care for our elderly and infirm will<br />
continue to be funded until the new<br />
proposed community models are ti~mly<br />
established and functioning .<br />
..iToronto<br />
Public<br />
Ubrary<br />
News from your local library<br />
(S_anderson Branch, 327 Bathurst Street, 393-7653)<br />
Hours:<br />
Mon. to Thurs, 10 am to 8.30 pm<br />
Friday, 10-6, Saturday, 9-5<br />
Sunday 1.30-5 (through April).<br />
Did you know that ifyou step into our library, you will<br />
find books of susp~nse, . romance, westerns, science fiction,<br />
fantasy, historical fiction, children's books, how to parent,<br />
how to get by in this world, teen novels, cassette tapes,<br />
language tapes, newspapers, magazines, literacy<br />
learner/tutor books and tapes and lots, lots, more ..... to<br />
borrow and enjoy?<br />
BOYS AND GIRLS<br />
Tales for Twos<br />
Summer Session starts July 3<br />
Fn'days 10:45 am<br />
Summer Programs<br />
For infomwtion, please call 393-7653<br />
Wednesday, August 12<br />
Puppet Show. Hansel and Gretel. 2 pm.<br />
Thursdays at 2 pm<br />
Games and Puzzles.<br />
ADULTS<br />
Wednesday, July 8<br />
2 pm, Historias em Portuguese<br />
Thursday, July 23<br />
Chinese Film:<br />
GtJN-gun HONG CHEN/ A Life of Struggle<br />
In Mandarin with English subtitles<br />
6 pm<br />
COMMUNITY PROGRAM<br />
ESL & Citizenship classes are available. Please ask at the library<br />
for information.<br />
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*In print books cheap<br />
*Out of print and unusual books you can't find new<br />
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THE MUSIC BOOK STORE<br />
588-9415<br />
New & used books, song<br />
books, sheet music,<br />
posters & postcards.<br />
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THE CONSTANT READER<br />
972-0661<br />
New, used and scarce<br />
books · for children.<br />
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THE ABBEY BOOK SHOP<br />
960-9076<br />
• Medieval studies, general<br />
humanities. Second-hand<br />
and out-of-print.<br />
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ABOUT BOOKS<br />
975-2668 ·<br />
Secondhand & antiquarian<br />
books in most subjects.<br />
Bought & Sold.<br />
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· ATTICUS BOOKS<br />
922-6045<br />
Classics & Philosophy.<br />
Psychoanalysis, Medieval &<br />
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Poems in DRUM this month are from<br />
Writing Ecrits 92, the ninth annual anthology of<br />
poems in French and in English by young writers in<br />
Toronto Board of Education schools<br />
IF I COULD FLY<br />
If I could fly<br />
I would see everything<br />
small, like toys.<br />
I could see the whole world.<br />
I'd fly over my house<br />
and see my family.<br />
I would fly down<br />
and open the door<br />
and say "Hi!" to them.<br />
They didn't know I was flying<br />
so they took iny wings off me<br />
and it was bedtime.<br />
Maybe I'll fly tomorrow.<br />
By Kenneth Seta<br />
Grade 1<br />
Orde Street P.S.<br />
Bye-bye books, said the media prophets but<br />
PEOPLE ARE SMARTER THAN PUNDITS<br />
by Juan Libro<br />
Some 35 years ago, the death of<br />
the book was predicted: everyone<br />
would be glued to a screen.<br />
It has transpired that although<br />
many folk are indeed screen<br />
-bound, the percentage of<br />
readers has remained constant.<br />
Indeed, some recent statistics<br />
seem to indicate that an increasing<br />
number of people are turning<br />
to books for relaxation. In<br />
addition, a growing number of<br />
people now realize that an<br />
information retrieval system can<br />
supply answer~ to direct questions<br />
but not expand one's<br />
horizons and vision in the way<br />
that consulting and browsing in<br />
a book may do.<br />
Toronto, with its rich blend<br />
of intellectuals who have t1ed<br />
oppressive regimes, newcomers<br />
who are seeking knowledge and<br />
information to help them get<br />
established, and "free-thinkers"<br />
who are not content with the<br />
official. line handed out by the<br />
establishment nor the mindnumbing<br />
garbage - dispensed<br />
over the airwaves, is quite<br />
possible North America's most<br />
"bookish" city. Not surprisingly<br />
then, I have been told by many<br />
visitors from- the U.S. (and<br />
elsewhere) that Toronto is now<br />
the second best city for bookstores<br />
in North America. (I ,am<br />
not sure which is tirst - it certainly<br />
used to be New York but<br />
the focus many have moved to<br />
the West Coast. Or perhaps we<br />
are, indeed, best but no one<br />
wants to admit it!).<br />
Certainly, Toronto has more<br />
books available than the rest of<br />
Canada in toto if you count<br />
second-hand books, antiquarian<br />
books and new books. We have<br />
COLLEGE<br />
B 0 0 K S<br />
:For tlie 'Best in I aea.s<br />
Academic & Scholarly Books<br />
Fiction & General Interest<br />
Sale Books & Remainders<br />
Bargain Basement<br />
Special Orders Welcomed<br />
-<br />
SUMMER SALE'STARTS JULY 18<br />
Two Huge Book Sales in April & November<br />
We give Readers a 7% Discount to Offset<br />
the Tax-on-Reading (GST)<br />
Store Hours: '<br />
Monday· Friday: 9:30 • 7 Saturday: 10-6 Sunday 11 • 5<br />
321 College Street, Just 1 block west of Spadina<br />
Phone: (416)975-0849 FAX: (416)975-0712<br />
. •VISA, ArnE~, MC~<br />
here 10% of the population of<br />
the country and about 50% of<br />
the serious book resources.<br />
"Serious" in this context meaning<br />
second-hand and antiquarian<br />
shops where books from 500<br />
years of publishing are available<br />
and specialist new book shops<br />
where the stock has depth and<br />
doesn't merely feature the most<br />
recent bestsellers from major<br />
publishers.<br />
Interestingly enough, the area<br />
immediately north of Kensingtoq,<br />
i.e. College to Bloor,<br />
bordered by Spadina and Bathurst,<br />
contains no less than 15<br />
of these serious bookshops. A<br />
John Henry Nyenhuis, pianist:<br />
soundscapes for cinecycle silent screen sundays<br />
little extra jaunt to Dupont rp;;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-.,<br />
includes two more booksellers<br />
of interest conveniently housed<br />
Cine Cvcle®<br />
in one location. It is coming to<br />
be known as the midtown bookquarter<br />
and here readers may TheF ·z Th --;;7<br />
not only tinct recent books at z m eatre<br />
modest prices, obscure scholarly<br />
titles that the chain stores Silent Sundavs Live oiano<br />
haven't even heard of, books , July's evenings of classic silent films 9:00pm- Sundays<br />
for courses at a fraction of new . accompanied by ... ]OHN HENRY NYENHUIS, PIANO<br />
price, scarce and collectible<br />
July 5 SIEGFRIED<br />
books in many fields and much<br />
GERMANY 1924 Di;. Fritz Lang<br />
more -- all available in shops<br />
which are blessedly free of the July 12 KREMHIWES REVENGE<br />
feel of a supermarket.<br />
GERMANY 1924 Dir. Fritz Lang<br />
On Harbord Street alone there July 19 THE GENERAL<br />
are eight such shops: a music<br />
bookshop, · a parenting<br />
bookshop, a children's<br />
bookshop, a psychology and<br />
therapy bookshop and a women's<br />
bookshop, together with<br />
three second-hand bookshops<br />
each with its individual character<br />
and strengths and depths<br />
from the latest Charles Bukowski<br />
to the most obscure scholarly<br />
texts, from $3 paperbacks to<br />
$3,000 antiquarian books:<br />
books in literature, philosophy,<br />
mountaineering, mathematics,<br />
gardening, cooking, religion,<br />
music medieval palaeography,<br />
paper airplanes and much,.much<br />
more. Of course, second-hand<br />
shops are also ready to buy or<br />
trade in those broad areas,<br />
thereby acting as one of socie-<br />
. ty's most useful recycling facilities<br />
so that books that are still<br />
in demand may be "recycled" to<br />
give you more room, a little<br />
cash or other books, and give<br />
pleasure to another reader.<br />
Downtown Toronto may have<br />
its problems, but good<br />
bookshops are one of the nice<br />
things about living here.<br />
I<br />
July 26<br />
U.S.A<br />
BE RUN<br />
ADMISSION $ 3.00<br />
Pleasure Dome<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 26-27 7:30 & 10:00<br />
1926 Dir Buster Keaton<br />
GERMANY 1926 Dir Walter Ruttman<br />
Refreshments A vat/able<br />
THE EXQUISITE CORPSE<br />
The Body in Parts<br />
July 2 8.pm A VITA RONELL<br />
July 17<br />
July 29<br />
Aug 14<br />
8.pm<br />
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8.pm<br />
8.pm<br />
Crack Wars<br />
BODIES IN SPACE<br />
Film and Video Aesthetics<br />
PERFUMED NIGHTMARE<br />
Mababangong Bangungot<br />
NORT!fERN THAW<br />
New Fnnish Work<br />
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT<br />
CINE CYCLE PLEASE CONTACT MARTIN AT 596-7733<br />
Cine Cycle<br />
317 Spadina. Ave (REAR)<br />
In the laneway between Darcy andBaldwin<br />
TEL 596-7125 - 596-7733
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Relea.se relieF<br />
For real media freaks, here in no particular order is a semi-complete summary of the media ·<br />
releases that came. in since May 21, o_ur last production date.<br />
• The City of Toronto Book Awards; Hearts of Flame by Katherine Govier wins the <strong>1992</strong><br />
Toronto Book Awards, For Info: Linda Ott: 392-7797<br />
• Du Toit, Allsopp, Hillier; Ruth Grier, Minister of the Environment expressed pleasure with<br />
their Spadina LRT Streetscape Design Study and said the TTC should "continue to give it<br />
the ... consideration it deserves."<br />
• City, Info. and Communication Services; St. Lawrence Mkt welcomes 8 new businesses<br />
• Exhibition of Glass Paintings by Beca Rind, Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville Ave. Jul. 2- 31.<br />
• Toronto City Cycling Committee; steps to improve street traffic safety, May 21 at Police<br />
headquarters, 40 College Str. Info on CANBIKE on-road education courses: 392-7592<br />
• Les Goons Commedia Troupe, high school troupe at Centre Islan-d, July 4, and then 8<br />
tjmes a day, Wed. through Sun. until August 23. $1.25 children, students, seniors; $2<br />
adults. Info: John Glossop, 763-5997<br />
• Greenpeace Ozone Action Alert, postcard campaign to Arthur Sawchuk, CEO of Du Pont<br />
Canada, P.O. Box 2200, Streetsville, Mississauga, Ont., L5M 2H3 demanding end to<br />
production of ozone depleting substances.<br />
• City, Dept. of Public Works, Get rid of hazardous waste safely. Call Hotline 392-4330<br />
• Healthy City Week, <strong>Jun</strong>e 15-19, Healthy City Office, City of Tor.onto.<br />
• Metro Planning Dept. A Waterfront Trail for Metro Toronto, Info: Tim Smith 392-9786<br />
• Meeting Ontario's Priorities, Budget <strong>1992</strong>, Copies of guidebook or Budget: Publications.<br />
Ontario Bookstore 1-800-668-9938;' 0ntario Budget Hotline: 1-800c263-7965 (English).<br />
• Square in Motion, Entertainment at Nathan Phillips Square every day during "Spirit of ,<br />
Canada" - Canada Week Monday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 29 - Saturday, July 4, Hotline: 392-0458.<br />
• Square in Motion, Children Wanted for Canada Day parade. Info: Dina Graser, 362-3692.<br />
• Rosario Marchese, M.P.P. Fort York, Info. session about _Workers' Compensation Board,<br />
· <strong>Jun</strong>e 23, 7-9.30 pm. College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst. Info: 363-9664<br />
• Board of Health, City of Toronto Health Unit, report on use of pesticides in the City of<br />
Toronto from the MOHealth and Commissioner of Parks and Rec. For copy call 392-7025.<br />
• City, City Council meeting May 25, adopted report from the City Solicitor on the<br />
Purchase of Spadina Marina Facilities by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners.<br />
• The Caribbean Cultural Committee, media conference, <strong>Jun</strong>e 3;<br />
info, Joanne Smale Productions: 363-4051<br />
• Metro Toronto Police pamphlet You and Your Bicycle.<br />
• Toronto City Cycling Committee, Cyclometer, newsletter for cycling in Toronto, for free<br />
. subscription send name and address to Cyclometer, 20E, City Hall, Toronto, M5H 2N2.<br />
• Healthy City Week (<strong>Jun</strong>e 15 - 19) and Toronto's Bicycle User Groups (BUGs), <strong>Jun</strong>e<br />
BUGnight, <strong>Jun</strong>e 16 at the Real Jerk Pit Restaurant, 240 Richmond Street.<br />
• United Way announces the allocation of $1 . 3 million through its Community Initiatives<br />
Funding Program (CIF) to help agencies meet urgent community needs.<br />
/ • United Way launches Corporate Campaign.<br />
• United Way, Helping Women to help themselves: an information session with Marci ·<br />
Lipman, <strong>Jun</strong>e 15, McGill Club, 21 McGill Street. Info: Marci Lipman 598-4055.·<br />
• Mariposa, the best music under the sun, <strong>Jun</strong>e 19-21, Ontario Place. Info: 778-9063<br />
• ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Metropolitan Toronto and Area), volunteers<br />
needed to help sell cornflowers, <strong>Jun</strong>e 5 and 6. Info: 362-0447<br />
• The Phoenix presents the Rankin Family, May, 29, Trinity Centre, 427 Bloor Street West.<br />
• The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, public education, The Facts about Prozac (Fiuoxetine),<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 8, Convocation Hall, U ofT, 7-9 p.m. Info: Sherry Cecil, 979-6816.<br />
• (STEP) Selective Traffic Enforcement Program, brochure by City Cycling Committee.<br />
• Bloor 'Y' Branch, (Jewish Community Centre), sale of summer memberships, valid from<br />
May 1 -September 7, <strong>1992</strong>, 750 Spadina Ave.924~6211.<br />
• Ministry of the Attorney General, Aboriginal justice project grant presented to Aboriginal<br />
Services of Toronto (ALST) during official opening at i 97 Spadina Avenue, <strong>Jun</strong>e 16. Info:<br />
Rosemary Hnatiuk, Minister's Office, 326-4423.<br />
• U. ofT., Office of the Assistant VP (Planning), Daniel W. Lang, discussions on proposed<br />
closing St. George Street between Bloor and College, Info: Daniel Lang, 978-7116.<br />
• Sonya's Park, Oxford Str., aArt ·in the Park, Sat. only, 11 am- 6 pm, weather permitting.<br />
• Hospital Poisoning Community, Did you know the To. Hospital Incinerator at Dundas -and<br />
Bathurst burns medical waste without any pollution controls 16 hours a day,_ 7 days a<br />
week? The Board of Health says: Shut incinerator down. Info: 368-9190 or 368-0407.<br />
• The Cari.bbean Cultural Committee announces <strong>1992</strong> Board of Directors. 925-5435.<br />
g§<br />
• City, Planning Advisory Committee, public meeting, proposal to amend Official Plan and<br />
Zoning By-Law re: 25 Augusta Avenue; Wednesday, July 8, <strong>1992</strong>, Ryerson Public School,<br />
96 Denison Ave. 7 pm. Info or copy of preliminary report: Susanne Pringle, 392-7740.<br />
• Board of Education, "Toronto Public Schools Make the difference," Writing/Ecrits '92, a<br />
book of poems written by students. Info: Jeff Sprang, 591-8034.<br />
• Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE), Nathan Phillips. Square, July 10, 11, 12, exhibitor<br />
info: TOAE, Chalmers Building, 35 McCaul Street, 408-2754.<br />
• St. Stephen's Youth Employment Centre, 799B College Street, 531-4631,· brochure to<br />
employers: How Much Time and Money did you Spend filling your last Vacancy? ·<br />
• Centre 276, Sunday Jam Session, 3-10 pm., from May 3.1, 276 Augusta, Info 966-4059.<br />
• United Way and Cadet Cleaners, "Operation Overcoat." Drop off winter coats at any<br />
YMCA fitness facirity. Info: Wendy King or Diana Law;-ence, United Way, 777-2001.<br />
University Settlement Music School<br />
23 Grange Road (S. of Dundas, off McCaul)<br />
is now accepting registrations for<br />
FALL PROGRAMS<br />
Individual lessons (all ages, all times):<br />
piano, voice, violin, viola, cello, guitar, flute, recorder,<br />
clarinet, saxophone, Chinese bamboo flute, pipe organ,<br />
Persian dulcimer.<br />
Group Classes<br />
Children's Choir (8-12), Music Theatre (8-12), Pre<br />
School Music (3-5); Orff/Creative Music (5-8); Top 20s<br />
Dancing (8-12); Kathak Dance (8 & over);<br />
Balkan Choir (Teens and Adults); Steel Band (8 & over)<br />
Theory/Harmony/Composition (all ages)<br />
Eurhythmics (Teens & Adults); Madrigal Group (Teens<br />
& Adults); Solfeggio (9 years & over)<br />
Cantonese Opera (Seniors)<br />
For information & registration please contact Annette<br />
Sanger (Music Director) at 598-3444.<br />
aArt Fresh Start<br />
aArt in the Park, Sonya's Park that<br />
is, got off to a great start on Saturday,<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 13, <strong>1992</strong>. A steady<br />
stream of supportive people<br />
stopped by to view the oil pastels,<br />
oil and acrylic paintings,<br />
watercolours, batik, tapestry and<br />
photography on display. Eight<br />
members of the collective aArt<br />
were represented in the exhibition,<br />
with more to come. aArt will be in<br />
Sonya's Park every Saturday<br />
llam-6pm until Labour Day. We<br />
may expand to Friday evenings 5-<br />
9pm as well. Also look for children's<br />
painting classes on Saturday<br />
afternoons. Any visual artists<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
FESTIVAL IN<br />
GRANGE PARK<br />
On-· Sunday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 7, representatives<br />
from 16 countries and<br />
members of the Grange community<br />
enjoyed a Festival of Music at<br />
University Settlement House.<br />
Although the event had to be<br />
moved inside to the gym, hundreds<br />
of people were able to listen<br />
to local a!ld international performers.<br />
One of the highlights was<br />
a large Finnish delegation which<br />
included a Big Band, ballet and<br />
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Tels.: (416) 966-7555<br />
(416) 923-0171<br />
interested in exhibiting with aArt,<br />
please contact Heide 921-0738. So<br />
come relax and enjoy nature and<br />
art in a casual atmosphere -with<br />
aArt in the Park on Oxford Street<br />
(first block west of Spadina) in<br />
Kensington Market.<br />
Note: The name aArt evolved from<br />
the Oort Cloud. 171is is the source<br />
of comets and represents the<br />
retiwins of the primordial matter<br />
from which the sun and planets<br />
we reformed some 4. 6 billion years<br />
ago.<br />
folk dancing and singing. The<br />
Finnish group ranged in age from<br />
eight to 70. Also performing that<br />
afternoon were a local rap group,<br />
and choirs and music students<br />
from Settlement Music School. A<br />
local Malaysian restaurant catered<br />
the food ·and there were displays<br />
from local and Metro-wide interest<br />
groups.<br />
. All this activity was part<br />
of a conference sponsored by the<br />
International Federation of Settlement<br />
that was hosted by the<br />
Toronto Association of Neighbourhood<br />
Services during the first and<br />
second weeks of <strong>Jun</strong>e.<br />
HADLEY B.S~ .. CST<br />
& Craniosacral Therapy<br />
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DATES TO WATCH<br />
BROTHER Mann's Workshop Project presents<br />
A fundraising gig for BMWP featuring<br />
Brother Mann's Workshop Band<br />
and special guests DILIZA<br />
on Saturday, July 4, 6 pm. to llpm.<br />
at Centre 276, 276 Augusta Avenue<br />
(1 block west of Spadina south of College)<br />
Donation: $5 .00<br />
All the proceeds go towards BMWP<br />
for registration and the opening of an office.<br />
Refreshm~nts available.<br />
For information call: Mduduzi (Mdu) 539-8684;<br />
Mamie 778-9072 or Zoe 962-5979<br />
July 17 and August 14<br />
Swing Dance Workshop - presented by Bronco's, in the<br />
Gladstone Hotel. 1214 Queen Street West (E. of Dufferin),<br />
7:30-8:00 Beginners swing. 8:00-9:00 p.m. Intermediate/advanced<br />
swing. Followed by live Country & Western/Swing<br />
music. $1.00 for workshop. No cover; Info:<br />
593-0183.<br />
BLUES JAM NIGHT - presented by Bronco's, 1214<br />
Queen Street West. Every Wednesday night starting at<br />
9:00 p.m. Featuring Steve Grisbrook every Sunday open<br />
jam, hosted by Lance Bennett Dave 969-8775.<br />
At the Milk Festival:<br />
A Play . Called<br />
Something Fishy<br />
in Camp Wiganishe<br />
by Sophia Perlman<br />
Well there was a festival sponsored by the Milk<br />
Marketing Board. It's over now. But while it lasted my<br />
class went to it· and we saw a play it was called<br />
Something Fishy in Camp Wiganishe<br />
But it kind of (or mostly I'm not sure) was songs<br />
and a. song of It's Raining It's Pouring in a way I'd<br />
never heard it before .....<br />
After the common thing he sang this. He couldn't<br />
get up in the morning, he couldn't get up in the night.<br />
Then he'd yell WAKE UP. Then again and again. We<br />
were out of breath and I had a lot of fun.<br />
The End<br />
Scadding Court Community Centre<br />
serves a culturally and socio-econ<br />
, omically diverse population in the<br />
area of Euclid-Lakeshore-College-<br />
Spadina. ~<br />
We are in the process of organizing<br />
a community arts festival in<br />
the summer, to take place from<br />
August 19 to August 22. The<br />
major theme of the festival is<br />
multiculturalism and our goal is to<br />
bring together·artists and communities<br />
from all cultures and backgrounds<br />
for a four-day celebration<br />
of our uniqueness and our<br />
commonalities within thx larger<br />
Canadian society.<br />
We have spaces open for workshop<br />
facilities. The workshops<br />
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WILL RETURN<br />
WHEN COLIN PUFFER<br />
CHIPS HIMSELF OUT OF<br />
ALL . THE ICE UNDER<br />
THE SUN AT MARIPOSA.<br />
THANKS FOR THE P-P-P<br />
PRESS P-P-PASSES, BOB.<br />
WHEN OUR FINGERS UN<br />
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august 19 - 22, <strong>1992</strong><br />
people united through arts<br />
17, a brief one paragraph/page<br />
proposal on what they would like<br />
to offer in their workshop and its<br />
could be in any of the arts disci- relevance to our particular complines,<br />
and they could each include munity · .<br />
two 3-hour sessions per day over a . We would li~e to invite _all artthree-day<br />
stretch that would lead tsts and artisans, particularly<br />
into a final day of Arts Faire to w?men and artists from cultural<br />
be co-ordinated with the West mmontles, to participate in this<br />
Queen West Fest. Our budcret high-spirited fe.stival. We believe<br />
includes artists/facilitato;s' that by working together, artists<br />
honoraria.<br />
and community organizations could<br />
As for the theme of the work- make a big contribution to the<br />
sh~ps, we are open to input by-the quality of life in our society. ~<br />
artists. A variety of suggestions Co~tact persons are Liz at the<br />
~ave been made, from song-writ- Meetmg Place 366-3571 and Gita<br />
mg and painting to Pottucruese at Scadding Court 363-5392.<br />
baking and History of Calyps~ and SC _ .<br />
Rap Music. Because of the lai:ge AT Community<br />
number of_proposals and options, Arts Festival<br />
we are aski~g the arti~ts to submit W t y y<br />
to the planrung commtttee, by July an s ou.<br />
Open 7 days from 7:30<br />
, AM<br />
to 1:30AM<br />
Entertainment every night<br />
10 PM to 1 AM<br />
• PERFORMING •<br />
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512 QUEEN ST. WEST<br />
TORONI'O, MSV 282<br />
363-8942<br />
OPEN SEVEN DAYS<br />
11:30 AM TO 1 AM<br />
*the nationals*<br />
*the bonnevilles*<br />
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#4: BANANAS<br />
by Robert Boucher<br />
Imagine finding yourself on Kensington<br />
Avenue and it's about 1930. Enter 66<br />
Kensington Avenue. It's the Sanci<br />
banana shop and all you see are<br />
bananas--clusters of bananas hanging Sicily, arrived in Canada in 1912 but<br />
everywhere. From the ceiling', still on before setting up shop in Kensington<br />
the stalks they grew from. On the back in 1914 he had set up a shop<br />
counters, bananas, just t;>ananas, wall- with a partner on Queen Street West<br />
to-wall-bananas. If you were adventur- where the Sheraton Hotel now stands.<br />
ous you might purchase some red Here he ran what was a fruit and candy<br />
bananas that were available occasional- store selling tasty treats like freshly<br />
ly. Behind the counter you would meet dipped chocolate bananas and almonds.<br />
Salvatore Sanci and/or his wife Antonia It was about this time that Salvatore<br />
who would cheerfully sell you all the married Antonia the girl he knew from<br />
bananas you required. Bananas sold his hometown in Sicily. La(er Salvatore<br />
then at 15 cents a ':lozen for IC,~rge ones (who was known as Sam) set up shop<br />
or 10 cents for small. The Sancis' two with a partner at 487 Yonge Street<br />
daughters, Anne and Frances, who (where the Westbury Hotel now<br />
were just toddlers at: the time would stands). It was here· that he started<br />
probably be found playing somewhere wholesaling bananas from the basenear.<br />
ment of this fruit store. Finding himself<br />
Salvatore Sanci, an -Italian from faced with the problem of unloading<br />
over-ripe bananas on Yonge Street he<br />
brought the fruit to the streets of the<br />
Jewish Market. At reduced prices he<br />
quickly unloaded his bananas right off<br />
his truck to eager customers. So<br />
impressed was he that he decided he<br />
would set up his own shop here.<br />
During the late 1920s he opened<br />
shop at a location he rented at 54<br />
Kensington Avenue. Hefe he sold only<br />
ban~mas<br />
as was the way it was in<br />
those days when the shops in the Market<br />
were for the most part very specialized.<br />
Salvatore had his foot in Kensington<br />
alright but being Catholic in what<br />
was virtually a very Jewish market<br />
place he had a small problem. He<br />
wanted to buy his own property here.<br />
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About Books<br />
83 Harbord Street, 975-2668<br />
Quality second-hand books in<br />
most subjects, especially<br />
literature. Bought and sold.<br />
Open every day<br />
Checkerboard Gallery<br />
204A Baldwin, 979-7254<br />
Peter Matyas, Market Artist<br />
Kensington Artwear<br />
College Books<br />
321 College, 975-0849<br />
A new bookstore serving<br />
university and community<br />
Parentbooks<br />
201 Harbord<br />
(j ust e. of Bathurst)<br />
531-8334<br />
Books onfamily issues<br />
for parents and professionals<br />
Portuguese Book Store<br />
36 Nassau, 364-7954<br />
lornais; Revistas, Livros,<br />
:Jiscos; Portuguese Cook<br />
Books in English<br />
Tern II Art Supplies<br />
TEL: (416) 596-6543<br />
· 63 Spadina Ave.<br />
rtist supplies for students<br />
11d professionals<br />
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Street Bakery .<br />
91 Baldwin, 598-3701<br />
uropean Style Breads and<br />
astries, Baked Fresh Daily<br />
Jerica Bakery<br />
)9 Augusta, 593-9321<br />
.Jstard Tarts, Sponge Cake,<br />
olo De Arroz, Ice Cream<br />
ensington Patty Palace<br />
2 Baldwin Street<br />
96-6667<br />
;;st Jamaican l,Jeef Patty<br />
Iicaelense Home Bakery<br />
J19 Augusta, 923-6266<br />
' ecializing in wedding<br />
rakes<br />
~ uality Bakery<br />
,70 l/2 College, 922-2595<br />
aste the difference quality<br />
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Essence Natural Foods<br />
560 Kensington,<br />
597-2176<br />
For gifts of health.<br />
Farmer Bob's Tropic~l<br />
Harvest<br />
70 Kensington, 408-0791<br />
The Market's Ita/ Shop<br />
Nice Spice<br />
Fong On Foods'<br />
46 Kensington, 598-7828<br />
Bean Cake, Soy Milk,<br />
Fresh Rice Noodles,<br />
no preservatives<br />
International Food Market<br />
55 Kensington, 596-6637<br />
Fresh Fruit and<br />
Vegetables<br />
Kensington Fruit Market<br />
34 St Andrew, 593-9530<br />
Fruits, vegetables, aloes<br />
too!!<br />
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Freshness, a family<br />
business<br />
Kensington Mall<br />
60 Kensington Avenue<br />
Groceries, vegetables,<br />
clothing, restaurant, gift<br />
items<br />
Units available for rent.<br />
Come by and see.<br />
Kensington Patty Palace<br />
172 Baldwin Street<br />
596-6667<br />
Best Jamaican Beef Patty<br />
lusitania Grocery<br />
152 Augusta Avenue<br />
593-9495<br />
Portuguese grocery store<br />
Melo's Food Centre<br />
151 Augusta, 596-834-:1-<br />
Portuguese Style<br />
Sausages<br />
Import and. Export<br />
Oxford Fruit<br />
71 Oxford, 363-1833<br />
Vegetables, fruits, quality<br />
24-hour c;a/1 in orders<br />
Perola's Supermarket -<br />
247 Augusta, 593-9728<br />
All kinds of groceries<br />
f(om<br />
South a.nd Central<br />
America<br />
Portuguese Meat Mkt<br />
285 Augusta, 593-5518<br />
Fresh meat, fruit<br />
yegetables<br />
Queen Street Market<br />
238 Queen Street West<br />
591-FOOD<br />
•Heidi's Butcher Shop<br />
•Hillebrand Wines<br />
•Molisana Bakery<br />
• Vinetta Foods<br />
•Juice for Life<br />
• T. D. Fastcash Machine<br />
Sanci Tropical ' '<br />
66 Kensington, 593-9265<br />
Freshest Herbs,<br />
A vocadoes, Mangoes,<br />
Exotica, Since 1914<br />
Tutti Frutti<br />
64 Kensington 593-9281<br />
Chinese and European<br />
. Foods. Coffee, Chocolate,<br />
4heese<br />
• NUlUntD.ts<br />
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''rttertallnmtiRt<br />
51 Kensington<br />
595-6337<br />
Lunch Mo-Sat 12-4,<br />
Dinner Mon-Thurs 6-llpm<br />
Fri-Sat 6-11:45<br />
Amadeu's<br />
182-4 Augusta, 591-1245<br />
Portuguese cuisine, seafood<br />
specialists and catering<br />
Casa Abril em Portugal ·<br />
159 Augusta A venue,<br />
593-0440<br />
Fine Portuguese Dining<br />
Chiu Yuen Dim Sum<br />
Restaurant<br />
2A Kensington, 598-1573<br />
Dim Sum and Cantonese<br />
Style Open Bam to 7pm ..<br />
LLBO<br />
CineCycle 596-7733<br />
317 Spadina Ave. (REAR)<br />
Silent Sunday Film Series<br />
Live Piano accompaniment<br />
by ... JOHN HENRY<br />
NYHENHUIS<br />
Epicure 'Cafe<br />
512 Queen St. West<br />
363-8942<br />
Open 7 Days !1:30am<br />
'till 1:00 am<br />
Four Sea<br />
Chinese Restaurant<br />
189 Augusta Avenue<br />
10% off on'pick up order<br />
(Over $10.00)<br />
Telephone: 971-9150<br />
Open 7 days a week.<br />
Grossman's Tavern<br />
379 Spadina, 977-7000<br />
Neighbourhood Bar.<br />
Nightly Entertainment<br />
Juice for Life<br />
238 Queen Street West<br />
408-3581. Juice Bar and<br />
Well-Being Emporium in the<br />
Queen St. Market<br />
Fresh vegetarian foods<br />
Kay's Sushi<br />
602 Dundas West 408-3414<br />
Sushi & Sushimi, Lunch<br />
sushi, special good price,<br />
take out. ·<br />
Kwaogtung Dim Sum<br />
Restaurant<br />
10 Kensington A venue<br />
977-5165 .<br />
Luncheon Special, LLBO<br />
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12 Kensington<br />
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Sinful Food, Tempting ·<br />
Times, Live Music.<br />
Le Uyen<br />
56C Kensington, 598-3328<br />
Authentic Vietnamese Food,<br />
LLBO, Major cards<br />
Karaoke after 8pm'<br />
Mars Food<br />
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432 College St<br />
921-6332 '-<br />
Out Of This World .<br />
Massimo's<br />
302 College, 967-0527<br />
Sit down, Pick-up~ Delivery<br />
Pizza and Pasta Beaven<br />
Pepper Restaurant<br />
69 Nassau<br />
340-9872<br />
Full licence<br />
assorted sandwiches<br />
"Patio open."<br />
Spadina Cafe<br />
401 Spadina, 340~6383 .<br />
A Pleasant Change.<br />
A Little of the Cominent<br />
in Chinatown: "catering"<br />
Spadina Garden Restaurant<br />
116 Dundas W. 977-341314 ·<br />
Szechuan-Hunan & Peking<br />
Cuisine -<br />
Fully licensed, LLBO<br />
Spadina Garden Restaurant<br />
41 1 6 Spadina, 598-2734<br />
Szechuan-Nunan & Peking<br />
Cuisine<br />
Fully licensed, LLBO<br />
The Greeks (LLBO)<br />
197 1/2 Baldwin, 597-8771<br />
Greek and Canadian Food.<br />
The Original Special Coffee<br />
The Boat<br />
158 Augusta, 593-9218<br />
International Cuisine<br />
Specializing in<br />
Portuguese Food<br />
The Second Cup<br />
181 Baldwin, 597-8398<br />
P~try, coffee beans<br />
& the famous Bodum<br />
The Second Cup<br />
340 College, 323-3702 '<br />
Tired of the same old grind?<br />
· Try ours.<br />
Vena's Restaurant<br />
646 Queen St. West<br />
365-6177<br />
"West Indian Roti"<br />
All Home Made Cooking<br />
Catering & Take out.<br />
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TORONTO SHIATSU<br />
19 Kensington Ave.<br />
599-1737<br />
Experience relaxation and<br />
relief from headaches,<br />
niigraines, neck and back<br />
pains, whiplash and other<br />
nagging old injuries. Gift<br />
. Certificate available.<br />
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Two Locaiions!<br />
160 Augusta 598-8195<br />
564 Dundas 596-8098<br />
Locksmith & Safemen<br />
38 Baldwin, 597-1212<br />
Builder's and Locksmith<br />
Hardware. Leading brands<br />
Parkly Gardens Florist ·<br />
28 St Andrew, 585-2159<br />
Fresh Cut flowers and plams<br />
for all occasions.<br />
Reingewirtz Paint Stores<br />
Ltd.<br />
107 Baldwin, 977-3502<br />
Paints, varnishes and<br />
imported wallpapers.<br />
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Continued from D 1<br />
Just up the street at number 66 there<br />
was shop that raised and sold chickens<br />
and came complete with horse stalls.<br />
For the exorbitant price of $6600 (remember<br />
this was 1 930 and a depression<br />
was on) he purchased this property.<br />
To give you an idea of how outrageous<br />
the price he paid was: the original<br />
lawyer putting the agreement together<br />
refiJsed to have anything to do with the<br />
deal and another lawye •. was hired to<br />
handle the purchase. For the amount he<br />
paid, Salvatore could easily have purchased<br />
a location on Yonge Street but<br />
he was determined to have a location<br />
on Kensington.<br />
The dilapidated building was torn<br />
down and a new building that would be<br />
a horne and business for Salvatore and<br />
his family was built. On the face of the<br />
.building in the brick there is a cross<br />
designed in the pattern. J ewish merchants<br />
always had a Star of David in<br />
their windows, so for Salvatore, being<br />
Catholic, this was his mark. At the far<br />
rear of the building four large cooler<br />
rooms were built. Bananas would hang<br />
here in storage until ready to be sold in<br />
the shop at the front, or delivered and<br />
sold wholesale to other stores. The<br />
garage area held two trucks that were<br />
used for deliveries.<br />
For the next two decades Salvatore<br />
Sanci and his wi-fe Antonia ran their<br />
business and raised their children AQne<br />
and Frances. Business ran nicely and it<br />
was only during the second world w ar<br />
that the business actually closed down,<br />
sometimes for up to two weeks, when<br />
banana stocks ran out and shipments<br />
were delayed. At the· time bananas<br />
were commonly used to treat patients<br />
(usually infants) who suffered an intestinal<br />
disorder called celiac (an inability<br />
to tolerate gluten). Doctor s from Sick<br />
Kids Hospital and mothers ordered<br />
banana flakes as a replacement. It is<br />
said that the banana saved the lives of<br />
many patients with this disease. -<br />
After the w ar the price of bananas<br />
had reached 14c a pound retail. Salvatore<br />
sanci died in 1 948 at the age of<br />
56 and the responsibility of running the<br />
family business fell in the hands of his<br />
16-year-old daughter, Frances. Frances,<br />
born in Toronto, learned to w alk by<br />
holding onto those stalks of bananas<br />
that hung in the cooler rooms at the<br />
rear. She attended St Patrick's School<br />
on McCaul Street and went to Central<br />
Tech. She ran the family business with<br />
sister Anne and their mother. They had<br />
two trucks and two drivers to make<br />
deliveries. Frances handled it all very<br />
well and proved to be an astute<br />
businesswoman. Remember this was<br />
before the times of women's lib.<br />
Frances married Tony Borg (a Maltese<br />
immigrant) in 1951 and _in the years to<br />
follow had three children (Salvatore,<br />
Vincent and Antoinette). Frances remembers<br />
the earlier years when a horse<br />
and buggy was a common sight making<br />
its rounds delivering ,milk bread or<br />
whatever. Sales people roamed' the<br />
streets carrying strings of small bagels<br />
that sold for 5c a baker's dozen ( 13).<br />
Shochets (supervisors of kosher slaughter)<br />
with blood-stained aprons walked<br />
the streets from the chicken slaughter<br />
houses that operated from the back<br />
alleys of the market. Many -Jewish<br />
mothers helped put their sons through<br />
medical school· cleaning chickens in<br />
these slaughter houses, Frances mentions.<br />
On Fridays at sundown · all the<br />
shops closed for - what is called<br />
Shabbos. J ewish families w ere home<br />
for the Sabbath which is sundown<br />
Friday to sundown Saturday. Saturdays<br />
were very quiet in the Market place<br />
here an'd shops did not open until sundown<br />
Saturday. Frances had the<br />
banana shop (as it was referred to<br />
then) open until 2 am on many Saturday<br />
nights. Sundays were also quiet<br />
here as virtually every shop was<br />
closed.<br />
In the 195,0s Sanci banana started<br />
stocking plantains and coconuts. Black<br />
people who came from Halifax started<br />
requesting these products. By the<br />
1960s' banana wholesale deliveries had<br />
ceased. It no longer made sense to<br />
- continue this with a profit of only 25c<br />
a case (40 lb box) and so other larger<br />
ba'nana wholesalers like Mei-0-Ripe<br />
Banana Brands with larger volumes<br />
took over the banana supply business<br />
(see photos). Sanci Banana started<br />
importing foods from Jamaica at this<br />
time.-Up until the 1920s most bananas<br />
arrived her·e from Jamaica but the<br />
problem of stem-rot brought an end to<br />
these imports and so bananas started<br />
arriving from central america. By 1960<br />
Panama disease attacked large numbers<br />
of banana plantations and diseaseresistant<br />
strains had to be developed.<br />
Today bananas are one of the largest<br />
cash crops in Central America; In' North<br />
America bananas are number two in<br />
popularity, second only to apples. Sanci<br />
Banana was the first to import produce<br />
from Jamaica to Canada. Throughout<br />
the 1960s products like mangoes, avocados,<br />
yams and even breadfruit<br />
started arriving by air freight. The shop<br />
started selling Jamaican groceries like<br />
ackees and. before long had the best<br />
selection of exotic groceries found<br />
anywhere. Sanci banana C!lid a brisk<br />
business as more and more West Indian<br />
immigrants started arriving in Toronto.<br />
Frances Borg's husband Tony died in<br />
1976. Tony had helped run the shop<br />
during the 25 years of their marriage.<br />
Frances still lives here,. with sister<br />
Anne, in the home ~md b'usiness their<br />
father built. Frances is retired riow<br />
taking it easy and enjoying being the<br />
grandmother of four. For those who<br />
know she is affectionately referred to<br />
as the true Queen of Kensington. The<br />
eldest of her three children, son Salvatore,<br />
took over the operation of Sanci<br />
banana in 1986 when his mother<br />
retired. Son Vince and daughter<br />
Antoinette as well as Sal grew up working<br />
part-time in the family business,<br />
earning their spending money. Vince<br />
got involved with the Liberal political<br />
party during his t eens and eventually<br />
ljecame the Principal Secretary and<br />
Senior Aide to former premier David<br />
Peterson. Today he is vice president of<br />
\<br />
The photographs:<br />
DIRECTORY COVER: Carmine Pitoscia,<br />
founder of Mel-0-Ripe Banana Brands<br />
delivers bananas with horse and buggy, 1928<br />
(photo courtesy Mel-0-Ripe Banana Brands)<br />
TOP LEFT: Salvatore (Sal) Borg, 1985<br />
(photo:Mike Savage)<br />
BELOW: Salvatore and Antonia Sqnci,<br />
Empire Studio<br />
BOTTOM RIGHT: Frances Borg, 1985<br />
(photo: Mike Savage)<br />
American Barrick, a mineral exploration/investment<br />
company. Antoinette is<br />
a school teacher and mother of one.<br />
She -lives in Port Credit with husband<br />
Benjamin Da' Estrella Jr. (Kensington<br />
Market Fish Company). None of<br />
Frances Borg's children ever met their<br />
grandfather.<br />
Sal, who has his grandfather' s<br />
name, carries on t he family business.<br />
An important part of the business nowadays<br />
is supplying many of Toronto' s<br />
fine restaurants with a large selection<br />
of exotic fruits and vegetables. Sal<br />
remembers the days when he w as<br />
growing up in Kensington; by then his<br />
was one of the few families w ho still<br />
lived and did their business here. In the<br />
years earlier, before the 1960s, many<br />
of Kensington market 's merchants lived<br />
above the shops here and ran their<br />
businesses. As a youngster remembers<br />
earning fifty cent s unloading a<br />
truckload of bananas. In 1960 bananas<br />
retailed for 17 a pound for # 1, 15c a<br />
pound for #2 and 5-1 Oc a pound for<br />
overripes. This w as still very much like<br />
small town then, he says, but the ethnic<br />
makeup bf Ke'nsin'gton 'market W~ H<br />
changing although it was still referred<br />
to at the time as the Jewish Market.<br />
More and more Port uguese were moving<br />
in and Hungarians were _running<br />
clothing stores on Augusta Avenue. Sal<br />
, lives in East York w ith his wife Pamela<br />
and three children. It would not be<br />
surprising should one of his children<br />
continue the family business in t he<br />
future. Today the business is know n as<br />
Sanci Tropical Foods. Bananas sell for<br />
29c-59c a pound now, but considering<br />
- inflation over the years bananas are st ill<br />
an incredible bargain. The flavour and<br />
vibrancy of the market remains, even<br />
as Kensington continues its irreversible<br />
cMange.