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At the Heart of Community

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Eat, Play, Love in Lower Edmonton. Now that the summer months are here, the Hydeside Neighbourhood held its annual street party in celebration of community. EAT Good Food It all began five years ago when a charity, Street Play, put up the funds for the first event focusing on encouraging children to play outside safely. Since then it has become an annual event and for the second successive year, Kate Osamor, our MP joined in the fun. Safe Supervised PLAY                                                                The Three Legged and  LOVE wins the Egg & Spoon Iliana Master Chef Young and not so old - every one participates in the preparations. Iliana makes her "marshmallow rice Krispy's" and Michael or Geoffrey keeps the Bar-B-Q-ed sausages, burgers and chicken flowing; Norma's homemade gingerbeer is to live for.  Of course it's all made possible by the indefatigable Geraldine,  Neighbourhood
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Trump: The Satire and Humour of a State Visit

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: Race & Royalty

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Sometime during the Summer of 2016, a guy and a girl went on a blind date. A seemingly innocuous event one might think, but then all hell broke loose. They came for her with viciousness. portrait by Keith Boldy Why?   Perhaps an intimate relationship between a bi-racial woman and a Prince , 6 th in line to the British throne awakens, for certain people, their deepest fear buried in the farthest hinterland of the reptilian brain : the fea r of annihilation.  Pause here for a moment to consider other seemingly innocuous events that  triggered a frenzied response, social and political upheaval and eventually, change .   In 1893, a 24-year-old Indian lawyer arrived to work in Natal, South Africa. Within weeks of his arrival he was thrown off a first-class train compartment when a white passenger protested against sharing the carriage with a “coolie.”    Three years later Ghandi returned to India and the rest is history.   In 1955 in Montgomery
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