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Stop the War
Mini-march
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Fringe Festival
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Time to Finnish
Day in the Nick
Starting Over
Readers Letters
Herbal Cleansing
Local Music
Tripping Out
Tippling at the Tup
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Housing Matters
Very Testi
Art Happenings
Vietnamese Food
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Gardening
Marathon Man
Surfing N16
Man in North Bank
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The first organic or biodynamic farmers’ market in the UK will open at 10am on Saturday 3 May at the Old Fire Station. The Farmers’ Market is the latest venture by Growing Communities, a not-for-profit organisation which already runs three food growing projects in Hackney.
The market will open every Saturday between 10am and 2.30pm at the Old Fire Station yard, 61 Leswin Road, London N16. Leswin Road is just off Stoke Newington High Street. Contact: Kerry Rankine on 0207 249 0243/502 7588 for more information.
Yum Yum has won first prize in the 2003 Thai Chef of the Year award. The Church Street-based restaurant came out top in the Classical Thai category at the awards at the Royal Lancaster Hotel. The event was judged by various food critics, including those from the Times, Financial Times, Time Out and the BBC. Owner Atique Choudhury also launched the Asian and Oriental Cookery School at a party on 5 March at his new Hoxton restaurant, Zen Satori.
The Stoke Newington Sea Cadets Corps, in existence for 83 years, look set to be sunk after the Council announced that they would have to pay the market rate for their headquarters on Church Street. For decades the Cadets have paid a nominal rent each year, currently £200. The Council have set a new rent of £11,000.
A short while ago the Council offered the sale of the
lease to the unit for £100,000 but only if they could raise the money in a month. City
and Hackney NHS Primary Care then expressed interest in the building at a sum of half a
million pounds. The Council suggested that the Cadets could move into the sailing centre -
good idea everyone thought until the Council again said that they would have to pay the
full market price for accommodation.
There is very little for young people to do in Stoke Newington and it would be a great pity if local youngsters lose this valuable scare resource.
Subsidence has created major holes in both the pavement and road causing considerable chaos for residents and traffic over the past few months. Just before Christmas the pavement collapsed into a 2ft hole outside the Film Shop, and then last month a major hole appeared in the road outside Clicia causing weeks of major road works.
This is not the first time N16 has looked at the problem - back in issue 2, June 1999
( www.n16mag/issue2/p9i2.htm
), the issue was raised with the fickle finger of fate pointing towards two major
concerns. The first was that much of the mains drains date back to the middle of the last
century and need replacing because of continuing leaks. The second could be due to old
streams filling and emptying as the water table 
rises and falls. In the late 1950s the whole frontage of one building
collapsed, due to water washing away the foundations. Four years ago N16 called for major
action to be taken, before another building collapses.
If you want to help in a gardening service for local people aged 60 plus and on a low income, then the Anchor Garden Scheme is for you. Anchor are looking for volunteers, from those who don’t know a dandelion from an orchid to dirty-fingernailed devotees of Kim Wilde. Anchor will cover expenses and provide tools and other equipment. A worthwhile thing to do. Contact Cathy Knamiller on 020 7249 4543 or 7249 6012.
The Library dispute is over, after 13 months and much acrimony. Unison have suspended the Saturday strikes after agreeing a deal with Hackney Council over the vexed issue of Saturday payments.
Shine hair studio at the rear of 39 Church Street appears to be facing competition from another newly-opened hairdresser just across the road on Church Street and known as, er, Shine. There seems to be potential for some confusion here. Let’s hope a third one doesn’t turn up.
This just in from a bewildered N16 motorist: ‘Am I alone in wondering what’s going on in Church Street? I’ve only just got used to avoiding buses that look like mobile nurseries, with their primary-coloured interiors and bright lights - but now it seems that the highway department has been out and about with its paint-box, slathering yellow, red and white paint across every available inch of road surface up and down the street. What with the junctions, the bus-stop bays, the lines here, there and everywhere, I’m sorely tempted to get out my crayons, and do some colouring. Or is it BritArt? I think we should be told.’
Local resident Gill Brown is overcoming her deep-rooted fear of flying to travel to the Arctic next month for charity. The 55-year-old will be running a team of huskies for eight days in aid of the Disabled Living Foundation. She is at least twenty years older than the next oldest in the group. Good luck, Gill, and good luck also to everyone from Stoke Newington running in the Marathon. Makes you feel humble.