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Mark Your Calendar
April 12th
YOU ARE INVITED
Annual "Aries Party" & Cole Porter Song & Sing
along Night
At the Ben Wicks
Come sing along
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Pianist Needed
to play at the Cole Porter Night at Ben Wicks, April
12/03. Must be excellent at following the singers.
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EUCHRE or TRIVIAL PURSUIT
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On a frigid night in January some of
the Ben Wick's patrons
voiced an interest in starting regular Euchre or Trivial Pursuit
nights to help get through the deep freeze this winter.
Proposed night; Sundays at 7 p.m.
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 NO
SWEETHEART REQUIRED - AGAIN!
Cabbagetown Theatre Company presents No
Sweetheart Required – Again! - a collection of very
short, very funny plays to be presented at the Village
Playhouse, 2190 Bloor Street West, on February 13 - 15,
2003.
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CABARET
“What good is sitting alone is your room? Come to the Cabaret”
February
11-20, 2003
With
a preview on February 10
Ryerson
Theatre School (RTS) proudly presents Cabaret, its first
full musical production in over 3 years.
At the Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard St. E. Tickets may be purchased on a
cash or cheque only basis through the box office, (416) 979-5118.
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NIGERIAN
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If you haven't had a scam mail in your e-mail box yet, you are one of the
lucky few. Called the Nigerian 419 Scam, after a section under Nigerian law.
The scammer usually claims to be in possession of millions of (usually
shadily obtained) dollars which they need to spirit out of (this varies)
Nigeria, Sierre Leone, Zaire etc. They offer you 10% to 15% if they can deposit
the money into your bank account. Greed is what drives the scam, you (if
you fall for it) will have to pay some up front fees. The scam has netted
the scammers in the BILLIONS (mainly from the US) and is one of Nigeria's main sources of
commerce!
Not only is it a scam it can also cost you your life. Several people have
disappeared and one person was killed in Nigeria after traveling to meet
the scammers.
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TOBOGGANING AT RIVERDALE PARK
Submitted by and copyright to © Lloyd (Punchy) Cully
Lloyd grew up in Cabbagetown, just before it was torn down to build Regent
Park.
The winters of my Cabbagetown childhood were just as miserable as the one
we're suffering through right now. But that couldn't keep the kids indoors,
there was just too much to do. Money wasn't plentiful so if we could find
something to do for free, then all the better.
One of the most fun free things was tobogganing at Riverdale Park. The
hills on the west side at the top of River Street were the best because they
were steeper and faster than the Broadview side. The only problem with this
side was that there was a footpath cut right into the side of the hill about
halfway down, at least for the majority of it. This made it impossible to do a
single, smooth, uninterrupted run to the bottom. To a lot of kids this was bad
news, but we were daredevils, this hill was a challenge.
We'd load ourselves onto the toboggan at the top of the hill and push off.
Down we'd go, picking up speed and momentum, faster and faster, our vision
becoming a blur as we streaked down the hill, everybody holding on tight as we
braced ourselves for the shock we were about to encounter at the halfway
point. Wham, suddenly the front of the toboggan hit with a thud as we went
from the almost vertical hill to the horizontal footpath. The rock salt, which
at this speed acted like ball bearings, barely slowed us down and gave off an
almost unbearable grinding sound as we flew across the path. Then an eerie
silence and a wonderful feeling of weightlessness as we soared off the crest
of the secondary hill, ten, maybe fifteen feet into the air we sailed. Since
we never knew how long we'd be airborne we couldn't prepare for our landing.
Then kaboom, we returned to the ground with a crash that caused the air to
rush from our lungs. Hopefully our landing would be straight and true,
otherwise we'd be tossed off and complete the slide on the seat of our pants,
quite possibly leaving any exposed skin on the hard, icy surface of the hill.
It was easy to extract ourselves from the toboggan if it twisted or did a back
flip, but if it nose-dived we usually ended up as one tangled heap of bodies
sliding down the hill with the toboggan on top of us.
Sometimes another kid would run along the footpath as we were rocketing
down the hill. If he couldn't hear us screaming for him to get out of the way,
or the front guy couldn't push him aside, he'd find himself launched into the
air on a toboggan full of kids he'd never seen before and about to crash-land
hard on the hill below.
After arguing over who's turn it was to pull the toboggan we'd start the
long haul back up the slippery hill to the top. This usually resulted in the
proverbial three steps forward, two steps back routine, or even three steps
forward and twenty steps back if you happened to slip and fall on your face.
Our legs would be burning by the time we made it back up and we'd all have to
lie on the ground to recover before we could again plunge to the bottom.
After a couple of hours of this we'd decide to call it quits and head home
for dinner. On the way the realization would sink in that we were soaked to
the bone, frozen half to death, bruised, battered, and had extremely
sore backsides. Now that's what I call an afternoon of winter fun.
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