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Local World Cup of Soccer Events Are On

Posted by Tanja / June 8, 2006

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june0806_stclairkickit.jpgWorld Cup fever is heating up in town and, as usual, St. Clair West is already partying.

The Kick It! community festival 'kicked' off on the 2nd and will be on until June 18th. Events -- all soccer-themed -- have ranged from photography exhibits and movie screenings to parades and soccer clinics.

Tonight, for example, you can take part in the "World Cup of Wine" (wine tasting) at Regal Heights Bistro and later choose between 2 soccer film screenings: Golé (narrated by Sean Connery, yes!) at Liberty Tax (1080 St. Clair W) or Garrincha at A Bica Cafe (1089 St Clair W).

Visit the Kick It! website for full event listings.

And should you find that there is low-attendance at any of tonight's events, it may just because everyone's gone Rogers Video -- no location along St. Clair -- where starting tomorrow morning, June 9th, tickets will be given away to see the World Cup final on the monster screen at the Rogers Centre/Skydome.

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jerrold / June 8, 2006 at 04:43 pm
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Any fellow Brazil fans in the house? :)
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Carrie / June 8, 2006 at 04:52 pm
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Holy crap, that's a lot of people! Insanity.
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Tanja / June 8, 2006 at 07:17 pm
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That's one of the legendary 1982 photo's of St. Clair when Italy took the title. There's an exhibit of these photos as part of Kick It! Otherwise, just ask anyone who lives in this area for a look at the photo that likely hands in their basement... EVERYONE has one, me included. Too amazing a shot.
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Michael / June 9, 2006 at 10:38 am
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I was there! I was too young to know what was going on. But I do remember that it was the first time I tried Tubble Gum.
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Shawn Micallef / June 9, 2006 at 02:48 pm
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That 1982 shot: The largest concentration of Italians in any one place, outside of Italy, was on St. Clair when Italy won the cup back then.

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Anthony / June 29, 2006 at 06:08 pm
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If anyone has any photo's of St.Clair during the 1982 World Cup, i'd certainly appreciate it. If you can email them over, trying to start a scrapbook with limited success...even with using Google
a_boc at hotmail.com
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Anth / July 13, 2006 at 02:54 am
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hey...anyone have any pics from st clair when italy won the cup this week?
thanks,
anth_sutton@hotmail.com
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Cristina / February 13, 2007 at 11:00 am
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Not me 1000%Italian here =)
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anthony / January 26, 2010 at 03:50 pm
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any one that took a video of a Sunrise band that played after Italy victory on St Clair across the Italian bank, please e mail it to me
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anthony / January 26, 2010 at 03:54 pm
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any one that took a video or picture of Sunrise band that played on July 1982 on St Clair across the Italian Bank after Italy victory, please e mail it to me.
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