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Regent Park: Jungle Gym

Sakina Khanam Dept: On top, the ancient red brick apartment blocks settle beside the new gleaming glass towers. Down below, tomatoes glow from a community plot, children scale a jungle gym, flowers burst from the Peace Garden as it was before the diggers came PHOTOS: The quilters of Regent Park, according to The Star. That s where we all would meet in the afternoon, she says. Now it s gone. But it s in our memories. Regent Park is a quilt laid down on the floor of one of its decrepit buildings. Sakina Khanam sets down a miniature fabric bench holding the relaxed frames of two mothers one in a rose salwar kameez. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.