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Volume 9 #1:
Don't be fooled
Our schools
are stHI in
trouble
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November 22 1 998
BY DAVD PERLMAN
What a roller coaster! Just
three weeks ago the Toronto
board of education said 13 8
Toronto public schools might
have to close because of the
province's "new formula for
funding education."
"Fear-mongering" howled
Minister of Education Dave
Johnson, right away. "The
Board is fear-mongering
with its list."
"It's not fear-mongering,
it's reality:mongering"
responded local school board
trustee, Christine Ferreira.
"Yo~r formula doesn't work
in a big city. If the formula is ·
not changed, in this area
alone three primary schools
will close (Kensington,
Orde, Ogden) as well as
three public alternative
schools (Horizon, Alpha and
Oasis.)"
"And just as bad as the
closings," she said, "the
remaining schools--
. Ryerson, King Edward, Lord
Lansdowne--will have to
take hundreds of extra
students, because, according
to the formula they have
extra space."
NUTS
Following the" 138-school"
announcement, parents here,
as elsewhere went nuts. The
next thing you know,
November 6 Premier Mike
was saying "don't worry,
we'll fix it. No schools will
have to close because of the
province's funding formula."
A furious Liberal leader
Dalton McGuint'y (among
fiLMING: KENSINGTON'S GOLDEN GOOSE.
A 1994 made-for-Disney tv movie "Pyromaniac s Love Story" turned
Kensington from the pet neighbourhood into the skunk of Toronto as
far as film companies were concerned.
After a shoddy job notifying residents and businesses what they were
up to, that film company basically got held to ransom by the community,
halfway through the shoot. City film liaison office and Ontario
Film Development Corporation were left red-faced. .
Filming in the Market dried up completely, while a "Protocol"for
· filming here was developed---how much notification, who to contact,
best days of the week, who represents merchants or residents in
dealings with film companies, etc.
Since than things have gradually picked up, and once again the
Market is in demand. Question is, how to keep the balance.
Yes, we need access to the market for movie makers, but without
damaging quality of life around here; yes, we need adequate compensation
for individual merchants' or resid'ents' loss of income and
amenity, but without scaring the film companies away.
Greed from the City or community could once. again kill the useful
goose.
others) responded: "No
schools will have to close till
after the election, is what he
means" McGuinty said.
"This is just a Tory bandaid."
Bandaid, maybe. But
also a breathing space.
PHoTo: MICHAEL BusiJA
Because by this last weekend
(November 19) the Board of .
Education had announced
that perhaps only 30 schools
would have to close over the
next three years.
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Inside .
PAGE 1: editorial
Watch fo"r seams!
PAGE 1: stories
•Garbage action
• Market history
•Festival of Lights
PAGE 2:
• News briefs
•Doctors Hospital
homeless ~helter
• Doctors Hospital
longterm care
announcement
PAGE 2/3: feature
Living Kensington
PAGE 3: calendar
Coming right up ...
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Kensington Market DRUM
Vol 9 #1 November 22 1998
60 Bellevue Ave, Toronto M5T 2N4
(416) 603-DRUM (PHONE)
416 603-3787 (FAX)
drumkm@web.net (e-mail)
Editor: David Perlman
Advertising: Pat McKendry
Layout & ~sign: Mike Busija
Tis the season to be
Scamrred
T9 "Kimberly"
. wherever w~ may find her
BY MAsHA BuELL
Remember "Mark"? Youngish
guy, shivering with cold (it
was right around Christmas
too~ a couple of years ago.)
He'd just moved in down the
street, he said. His mom was at
work and, disaster, his car was
going to be towed, he needs
$65 right away, his 'mom will
pay it back as soon as she gets
home, there's their house. ·
He was pretty smooth and he
scammed dozens of us.
Well, Mark's still around,
and this year, he's got company.
So watch it!
She said her name was
"Kimberly" living on Borden
·Street--her mom, living on
Brunswick, was out of town, It
was the weekend and her bank
was closed and she needed $35
for antibiotics for her kid;s ear
infection. She even left us a
post -dated check.
Like Mark did, she started
out at the door saying "You
recognize me, right?" I gliess
after falling for that, and
thinking we probably did, we
were already hooked and
cooked.
Kimberly and Mark. 1\vo
years apart ...long enough to
have forgotten whatever
lessons we learned the first
time. I guess, for better and for
worse, our hearts are still not
stomt. he said. His mom was at
But hey, thanks Kimberiy!
Thanks to you, chances are a
bunch of people with completely
truthful stories will be
refused help around here this
winter.
SILVER LINING
When we called 14 Division 2
years ago to complain about
"Mark" we got no sympathy.
("You gave a complete stranger
$65 without even asking to see
his ID? Well, with all due
respect .... )
This time? Well we're just
waiting for "Kimberly's"
cheque to bounce .... It's called
fraud.
TALKING GARBAGE? .NOP.E, RES-OURCE· RECOVERY
) .
A sk merchants, residents,
.t-\.shoppers alike, the first thing
that should be done around here?
"Clean up the garbage" is the likely
reply. Simple answer. Tough
problem. But impossible? Not
according to the Market "Resource
Recovery" group.
Meeting every Friday morning at
9:30am at Centre 276 (276
Augusta Avei:me), the group is
slowly but steadily chipping away
at "the garbage problem". And they
are doing so, in part, by refusing to
think of the stuff as garbage.
The secret, they say, is thinking
of the job as resource recovery, not
getting rid of garbage.
Bill Shane, one member of the
group, looks at the waste from the
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The market's
history
(so write it down!)
One of the best little projects under
way in the market nght now zs
called "The Kensington Listening
Post." One part of the idea is to
tape-record and then write down
the stories and memories of people
with connections to the Market.
Here, in his own words, is a short
piece from the tape of one of the
participants so far, Sam Lunansky
of Augusta Fruit Market.
Interviewer (1): I understand your
father was one of the first merchants
in the market
SL: Actually my mother ... with a
broken box and a scale, she boqght
produce and started to sell it in the
market. That was sometime in the
thirties. 1930.
I: Did they have a store or were
they selling it out front?
SL: Front of the store. they just
rented the front part ... At that
period of time everything was
illegal.
I: It was illegal to sell?
SL: Sure.
I: Was it? I never knew that.
SL: Oh definitely, and then eventually
they rented that store. They
wwere at 249 Augusta, just down
the street... .
I: Did people go in the store or did
they sell on the outside?
SL: On-the outsider, that \Vas it,
-everybody was displaying their
goods. Rain or shine it was always
in the open. It seemed that people
enjoyed it because it was mostly
new immigrants. I guess it reminded
them of home in some way.
I: Did your foilks speak English?
SL: Well they eventually started
speaking it but they spoke Yiddisti,
Polish, Russian, so· they could
stores and sees lots of recoverable
material. "There's compost, of
course. And cardboard, if it's
clean." And there's the substance
dearest to his heart --scraps of wood
which he gleans and from which he
makes furniture. Down the road he
dreams of a small Kensington
curio/sbuvenir business, fuelled
with the wooden bits and pieces
that right now get tossed away.
Market resident, Dawn Eagle,
has a hand in all kinds of recovery
exercises. Take the nifty green .
curved benches which you now see
all over the market. Originally they
stood on the Nassau Street side of
the former George Brown College.
They were destined for thescrapheap,
till Dawn and other
understand all the Slavic
languages ... the Poles, the Russians,
everyone came to this area because
· it reminded them of their own
villages, because it was like a
secluded village.
I: What was it like?
SL: Well it was very friendly and
secure I'll tell you that. Because
there was a lot of discrimination at
that time I can tell you that, if you
were Jewish.
members of the KMAC
streetscaping committee saw the
possibility of re-using them in the
Market.
Similarly the streetscaping
committee found places for the old
planters that once stood outside the
George Bro-wn building. Pretty
soon another 20 to 30 City-pro~
vided planters will dot the Market,
to be planted and maintained by the
community. Dawn is one of the
people who have volunteered to
take responsibility for keeping the
planters cultiyated and garbage
free. And she is on the lookout for
a place or places (like the Nassau
Street frontage of the Toronto
Hospital Leonard Street parking
garage) that could be turned into a
I: But you felt secure, you didn t
fee/like a ghetto.
SL: No no no no not at all but
everyone seemed to be part of it, it
doesn't matter what nationality, it
seemed like it was all one ...
everybody was at ease here if you
didn't speak English. Because
some people were very rude if you
didn't speak the language properly
out of this area they let you know
it. But if you came in here, it
community garden. "We forget that
earth is a resource" Dawn says.
~'Wherever possible. We need to
recover it, not cover it with concrete."
Rounding out the core group is
Maisela Kekana, director of the
South Africa Centre at 276
Augusta Avenue (where the group .
meets). Beyond the obvious benefit
of cleaning up the market, he sees
another "resource.recovery;' aspect
to the project. "Our unemployed
youth" he says "are a resource that
we are throwing away." Turning a
flood of garbage into separate waste
streams takes careful planning and
hard work, he says. "It is an
opportunity to get our youth
Continued on page 2
Left:
Melisa Araujo, 5, like
many generations before
her, dutifully follows the
example of her parents.
Her strength, like the
strength of Kensington
Market, rests in the
hearts of many families
whose familiar and daily
rituals have brought
colour and nourishment
to the mind and body for
generations.
(See Family Affair; page 2)
doesn't matter what you spoke.
It was a different scene altogether
than it is now. You had fishmon-
. gers, trucks used to come with big
vats of carp, people knew what too
do wi,th the carp, knew how to bake
it... you could keep 30 pound carps,
huge things. Off the trucks . ... And
they had 'live chickens right in
front. Ducks, they're always more
Continued, page 3
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MAKE IT A HOLIDAY MONDAY
Kensington's lOth annual Festival of Lights, Dec 21
Recipe hunt and histQrical
tours return to help make
the lOth annual Kensington
Festival of Lights,
December 21 a Holiday
Monday to remember!
December 21, the winter solstice--.
longest night of the year. But as
the days-get shorter, activity is
hotting up for the big parade.
· As always the day's.highlight
will be Kensington Carniv.al Arts
Society's annual Festival of Lights
lantern parade and theatrical
pageant. The parade will leave St.
Stephen-in-the-Fields Church
(College and Bellevue) at sundown,
. and wind its way through the
market, from scene to scene, before
returning to the church.
AND MUCH MORE
This year, in addition to the parade,
two of the most successful elements
of this year's summer festival will
be repeated during the Festival of
Lights. . ~
First, Kensington Market Action
Committee (KMAC), with its
partner, Heritage Toronto, will be
conducting more hugely popular
guided tours of the Market, from
Saturday Dec 19 through Monday
December 21.
And the Kensington Festival
Committee will get involved by
bringing back the summer's palatepleasing
recipe hunts, where
participants get a chance to collect
some of the Market's special
recipes and sample exotic foods.
lANmtN-MAKJNG FOR EVERYONE
Work for the Festival <;~fLights is
already under way in the festival
Continued on page 3
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• PAGE 2: November 22 1998
So, what's
happening
with ...
•the DRUM?
It's a question we've been asked more and
more often over the last year as we've
found outselves publishing less and less
often.
Well, this is what's happening!
DRUM is back. Small. And we intend. to
keep it this way. Frequent. (Ten times a
year, at least.) Not selling the market to the
world. Presenting the Market to ourselves.
•plans fa a rent-free
community-controlled
staefront space· in the
Ken~ington lofts?
Coming along. The offer still stands. But .
rent-free poesn't mean totally free (~xes,
phones etc add up). So a task group of the
Kensington Market Working Group meets
regularly to figure out if it's going to wor~
(and if so, how). Community must decide
by Feb '99. Task group must report to the
January coommunity meeting o{the
Kensington Market Working Group. To
find out about community space task group
meetings (and lend a hand), contact Pat
Maltby at 926-9883.
• .............. yoo name it!
Olr plan is fer •5o what's happening
wifh._. to be chockablock with sha1-
<J1d-sweet items on maket matters.
We'll answer where we know. and find
out where we don't.
Deadline. for next issue, is December 5
Call 603-DRUM.
Or fax us at 603-3787.
ROMEO'S
INC.
The FruifBOYs of the. Market
SPecializinli! in wholesale and retail
FREE HOME DEUUERY
285 AuJtusta Ave
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·oNE WINTER'S WORTH OF SHELTER
Hostel at Doctors goes ahead as part of sho~t term fix
av SoPHIA PERLMAN
It's an emergency. There are not
enough beds in Toronto for the
homeless. People are pointing out
that emergency shelters are not
the answer. What is needed are
long term solutions. This is a
phrase that was heard quite a bit
at the press conference at Doctors
Hospital on November 6th,
sponsored by the Toronto Disaster
Relief Commitee (TDRC).
At the press conference, was
Dr Stephan Hwang, from St.
Michaels Hospital. He talked
about the medical effects of
homelesness. Obviously if someone
has to sleep on the streets,
their health is going to deteriorate
. Also present, was la\vyer Peter
Rosenthal. He talked about the
legal effects of homelessness, for
example, when people· have to
break into vacant bulidings to find
shelter.
Another person who was there
was J. David Hulchansky. He's a
founding member of the TDRC.
Mr. Hulchansky said ideally
Doctors Hospital should not have
to be used at all. The problem can
be solved with long term solutions
such as permanent affordable
housing. (The prime minister
came to Toronto and took a night
time tour of the city, to see the
effects of homelessness. He is
waiting till January for another
study.) ·
Surrounded by media (left to right): Peter Rosenthal,
J. David Hulchansky, and Dr. Stephan Hwang.
Hazel Jackson is a volunteer.
She's been homeless in
the past and is friends with
many people on the streets.
She does whatever she can:
collect clothing, food and
blankets, and "Sometimes I
let them crash at my place."
She says that people are so
desperate that they have to
resort to crime.
shelters. They agree that a
long-term solution is more
important. But unfortunatly
(they admit) there is no
alternative for this long ~::old
winter.
So the unused DOctors
Hospital Building is going to
be opened as a shelter for
around 120 people on November
29th. Maybe shelters are
not the answer. Maybe we
need long term solutions. But
at least the Doctors Hospital
will be one winter's worth of
warmth for some members of
our community.
THE ONE
PERCENT SOLUTION
The government is spending
I% of its revenue on
the homeless. Mr
Hulchansky says if they
spend 1% more, then it
could eradicate homelessness
in our country. People For more information, call
·RISing· trom
don't want emergency
city hotline 392-3777
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Doctors Hospital announces .
..Kensington Long-Term Care Centre ..
The future of the Doctors Hospital site
at Brunswick and College has been
pretty cloudy since the Hospital was
shut down by the provincial government
and its programs shifted to
Toronto Western. Now, suddenly the
picture is a lot clearer. ·
At a press conference at Doctors,
November 18, provincial long-term
care minister Cam Jackson announced
that Doctors Hospital Corporation
would receive $15 million to build a
long-term care facility mi the site, with
an additional $5 million to come from
the.Doctors Hospital Foundation.
The project will involve three levels
of care for seniors--one: independent
living; two: assisted; and three,
chronic care. The biggest building ·
would be tucked in behind the tall
building at 340 College (200 chronic
care beds), tapering to the north end of
the site (independent), where it would
match the surrounding houses. The tall
building--40-Brunswjck-- would be
torn down.
Nick Torchetti, chairman of the
Doctors Hospital Board said in an
interview he was "delighted, and I
hope the community will be.
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For something like this to rise from the ashes of
our disappointment is amazing."
"After the crushing disappointment of the
spring" he says, "we could have ended up with
nothing but uncertainty for the community--the
land being sold on the private market."
To be called the Kensington Centre for Long­
Term Care, the project would allow seniors, as
they grow more frail, to remain in the community.
"In all our consultations with the community_ over
the years," says Torchetti, "this was always a big
thing."
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Not garbage, resource recovery
continued from page 1 .
involved."
Maisela, Dawn and Bill: All three of them are
realistic about the speed of the project. "Merchants
will get involved eventually" says Bill. Look at it
this way, they say. In the "bad old days" (late
1980s) merchants used to have to pay big bucks to
private haulers every day except Tuesday and
Thursday. Right now, Kensington gets the most
frequent garbage pickup of any commercial area i
the city. But with megacity, how long do you think
that will last? "When the bad old days come back,
we'll be ready."
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The spirit of the market lies in the ha1
and work here. The streets ofKensingt
breads and pastries and other merchanl
ing effort there would be no market.
A magnet for the world, Ken:
on to or is drawn by it's beauty and it's
work daily, this tapestry is spiritual foo
sensual, colourful abundance.
We have selected only a few of
there are many o~ers .
Minda and Linda
Araujo, shown here with
Linda's son Anthony, came with
their family from Portugal in
1974. After some time in
construction their father opened
St. Andrew's Fruit and Vegetable
store. Minda recalls working
here since she was 19.
Solly Stern, of Max and Sons,
commutes daily from North York
to serve his customers some of
the finest meat in the market. His
father, Max, emigrated from
Poland in 1955 with his wife and
2 sons when Sally was eight
years old. When he was 16 he
started working in the store.
Tom Mihalik, Proprietor of
Tom's Place on Baldwin Street
learned from working with his
father the rule "no customer
should leave the store empty
·handed." With this knowledge
he has nurtured a successful,
growing family business .Tom
works .with his mother and
sister every day ..
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ily Affair ..
and determined people who live
their canvas; the frUit and vegetables,
· pigments. Without their painstakhas
nurtured everyone that stumbles
Created out oflong hours of hard
the senses. Visitors are absorbed in it's
families to feature this time although
I
Frank Grosso and his son Sam
are part of a close family in the
market. Frank and his colourful
peanut cart may be seen in front
of the ROM or at some corner of
Kensington Market every day.
As children, both Sam and his
brother Joe worked with their
father during the summer selling
slushies or ice cream.While Joe
has gone on to operate a
construction company, Sam, with
the help of mom and his wife,
manages Grafitti s Restaurant on
Baldwin Street.
Growing up and into the family
business, ~e, Victor and John
Pavao remember when they were
children taking naps in the back of
the store on bags of ~offee beans.
Father Louie Pavao came from
Portugal in 1961. He opened Casa
Acoreana in 1964. While sons
victor and John continue the family
business Mike has expanded his
interests in animals, fish and birds
to open a pet shop, Animal House ·
on Augusta Avenue.
Our
schools still
in trouble
: continued from cover
page
SO WHERE DOES
THAT LEAVE US?
'·'Still in big trouble" says
Lisa McNair, principal of
Kensington Community
School. "People's lives are
still on hold. Clearly the
Tories don't respect how
important small schools
are for downtown neighbourhoods--they
simply
look at all the space as
classroom space. If you
are not wall-to-wall
students sitting in neat
/' little rows, either you have
too few students to stay
open. Or else you have a
whole lot of extra space
available to cram in the
students from schools that
should be closed. "They
don't seem to care about
the role we play in
daycare, adult education,
heritage programs, the life
of the community."
Her biggest fear? "That
parents will give up on
schools like ours and try to
on the -list early for schools
which seem to have a
better chance of survival."
Her advice? "We have
twenty-five years in the
community. Our
enrollment is up from last
year. This is a beautiful
building with fantastic
programs. Don't give up
on us."
Concerned about the
survival of Kensington
School? Visit the school
and sign a petition, or
phone for information on
how to help: 393-1290. ·
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Holiday Monday
December 21
continued from page 1
workshop at St Stephen in
the Fields Church. Drop by
any day, Tuesday to Sunday
to help out.
In addition, there will be
four Lantern Making
Workshops (see announcement,
page 3) where
participants will be guided,
from start to finish, through
the process of making a
lantern to carry in the
glowing parade.
Call the Festival hotline
at 929-8413 for details .
•••••••••••••••
The Market's History
Sam lunansky remembers
continued from page 1
active, ... different kinds of
noises you wotildn 't get now.
And then you have so many ·
variations of pickled food ...
herrings, barrels of herrings
on the street, you know they
were qabout 4 feet, big vats
of herring, different kinds of
herring not only one kind,
and they had fish stores that
had tanks of different kinds
of fish, live fish. And pickled
watermelon.
The Listening Post is also
collecting items that tell a story
(photos, old shop signs or
advertising, scales, etc) for
future display. Contact Mike
Lipowski at Heritage Toronto
392-6827. ext 235; or Barb
Matthews at KMAC 392-0880.
COMMUNITY
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St. Stephen's Community House
Creating Opportunities.
Strengthening Communities.
Every year St. Stephen' s Community House makes a difference
in the lives of. over 17,000 people. Our programs include:
Child Care, Youth Services, Employment and Training Services,
Wellness Promotion, Language Training and Newcomer Se~ces,
Seniors Services, a drop-in for Homeles!?/marginally housed people,
Conflict Resolution Services and Neighbourhood Development.
Call925-2103 for more information or volunteer opportunities.
This month's features:
• Are you interested in starting up y~mr own business?
If you're under the age of30 we can help.
Call Jennifer at 531-4631
• Do you need computer skills?
Do you Wl;Ult to improve the computer· skills you
already have? We offer affordable, friendly classes
at 340 College; Room 375.
Call Paula at 975-1987 to register.
WELCOME TO SCADDING
Scadding Court Community Centre
707 DUNDAS STREET W. TORONTO. ON M5T 2W6
TEL: (416) 392-0335 FAX: (416P92-0340
For over two decades, Scadding Court Community Centre has served families
on low incomes, immigrants, children to seniors, the unemployed and the
disadvantaged.
Be it the Swim and Social Program for people challenged by disabilities or the
recreation programs for youth; be it the Emergency and Occasional Child
Drop Off for isolated caregivers or the Chinese Seniors Program, Scadding
Court Community C~ntre offers programming as diverse as its community.
Between 500 and 600 people visit the building each day to participate in the
programs and services, or just to socialize.
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
• Recreation and fitness activities that include access to
a gymnasium, indoor/outdoor pools, two skating rinks and a park
• Summer camp
• After school programs for children and youth
• Information and referral
• Immigrant services for the Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Spanish
• communities that include, ESL, citizenship classes, youth support
• Caregiver relief through our emergency child drop off
• Young mother's support groups, parenting and skills development
workshops
• Food access program consisting of a community garden, skills
development and community economic development
• Swim and So_cial program for disabled people (this is the only program of
it's kind in Toronto)
• Youth activities include a drop-in, sports house leagues. and healthy
lifestyle and mentoring programs
• Community Attendance Program for students struggling in the regular
school system due to poverty,.neglect or abuse
• Drama Interact for youth who are physically and developmentally
challenged ·
KENSINGTON CARNIVAL
presents the 1Oth ANNUAL
JFlli§TIV AlL OF
LIGJHIT§
MONDAY DE~. 21st., 1998
Make lanlerns All ag;s and skill levels are welcome to
the Festival of lights Lantern Making workshops. Design and make
own lantern to illuminate the parade,and then your home!
Saturday Nov. 28, 10am- 4pm
Sunday Dec. 6, 1 pm -.Spm
Saturday Dec. 12, 1 Oam- 4pm
Saturday Dec. 19,· 1 Oam- 4pm
St. Stephen's in the Fields
enter Bellevue St.(corner of College)
please call (416) 538-7278
V 10illwmleell'
Volunteers are welcome and needed
p~oduction and performance
Please call (416) 538-7278
I
November 22 1998: PAGE 3. 5.
Coming
right up ••.
REGULAR MEETINGS
Kensington Market Action Committee
Contact Barbara Matthews, 392-0880 for
more information about the following
reular KMAC meetings.
• Main meeting: second Tuesday of
every month; 6pm-8:30pm; 340 College
Street (at Augusta), room 360. Next
meeting, Tuesday Dec 8.
•Streetscaping committee (the park,
bicycle rings, planters, benches,
Iighting,safety, traffic problems, etc):
First Wednesday of every month;
1:30pm; Kings Cafe (192 Augusta). Next
meeting Wednesday December 2. ·
•The Listening Post (History group):
first Thursday of every month, 7pm; St.
Stephen in the Fields Church (College
and Bellevue). Next meeting Thursday
December 2. ·
• Resource recovery (waste .
management): every Friday morning,
9:30am, Centre 276 (276 Augusta).
AND UPCOMING
•Thursday November 26
6:00pm -8:00pm Cecil Community
Centre, annual general meeting
58 Cecil Street. More info: 392-1090
•Thursday December 10, 7pm
Kensington Market Working Group
board meeting. Information: James
Julien, 920-9784 ·
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NOT NECESSARILY
AlWAYS THIS DUll
This community calendar isn't
necessarily just for meetings,
meetings, meetings. If it's
happening on the block
and neither private
nor purely commercial
let.us know in writing
(60 Bellevue) or by fax (603-3787).
(Next issue covers December 15-
February 1)
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