Upper Room saturdays!

For those who don't know, I'd like to introduce you to the Upper Room at the Toronto Alliance Church.

It's at 602 Queen Street West, on the north side of Queen, just west of Bathurst. It's not the most obvious doorway ever, so here's a Google Street View link and embedded picture for it:

It's right there under "mac fab" ...the barred up one to the left of that seated guy.


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So the deal is, every saturday evening at 5:30pm.

NOTE: It was every second saturday for awhile, now it's back to weekly. Yay!

AND they have a no-questions-asked food bank AND clothing bank. This is definitely one of the better clothing banks around! There will often be a nurse in there to do foot washing and stuff too!

After about an hour of dinner, they break out the instruments and start singing Christian music, with the lyrics on an overhead projector. And there's always a sermon as well. They're gracious enough to allow you plenty of time to ram your gullet full of - honestly - some of the best soup kitchen fare in town, before they start the service, so if you're averse to religious stuff, show up early.

Gotta get the jump on breakfast & lunch!

On these beautiful summer days, it's so easy to forget that after about 4pm, it's damn hard to find free food! That's why an early-morning tupperware run is always in order.

Here's a good morning schedule (for weekdays):

1. Good Shepherd breakfast & coffee, 9am (show up as early as possible, it gets bad quick).
2. St. Steven's breakfast & coffee, 10am - 10:30am.
3. Scott Mission breakfast, 10:30am.
4. St. Felix lunch, 11am.
5. Scott Mission lunch, 11:30am.
6. Good Shepherd dinner, 2pm - 4pm.

Of course, you'll end up with much much more food than one person could possibly consume in a 24-hour period, but if you're picking up for a whole family, or a group of friends, who are out getting other things done, then it's perfect! It's easy to pick up enough food to feed about eight people with this schedule.

Substitute the United Church on Wright and Roncesvalles, at 1pm and 5:30pm, and you've got a pretty solid weekly schedule for "bringing home the bacon." Even if home is Trinity Bellwoods and your family is a bunch of hungry-ass weirdos with shitloads of vodka and weed.

Too broke for food again thank god.

After a whole weekend of hot dogs, sushi, subway sandwiches and terrible indigestion, sweet sweet poverty comes to the rescue once again. Just look at this beautiful afternoon:

Scot Mission's great, but it's such a lifesaver all week, it's nice to give it a rest and check out the Christie/Ossington place. It might be fun to do Christie/Ossington, United Church and Good Shepherd... with a bike it's just barely possible!

Awww YEAH United Church on Wright time!

Sunday afternoon is a great time because of the united church on Wright Ave... one of the few places on the west side! What a pleasure not to have to bomb all the way east to the Good Shepherd (which admittedly probably has a bigger meal waiting for us) and having a great chance to check out Ronces village and stuff.

Plus the church meal's good! They won't let you touch anything and that means you get served coffee like at a coffee bar, except without waiting. Plus there's only like fifteen people there having food and they'll chat and start bands with you.

See y'all theresies!!!