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Volume 10 #3 A Kensington people's paper February 15 2000
St Stepheri' s acquires
A Ta_sca on Augusta
Several signs of hope, on the housing front
Things are suddenly hotting building at 260-262
up on the housing front in Augusta Avenue. There will
the Market, with three be a public meeting at the
interesting new initiatives to new location 7-9pm Wednesreport.
day February 23 to give the ·
Top of the list is St. community a chance to hear
Stephen's Community House plans and tour the site.
purchase of the A Tasca Continued, page 3
Kensington A ve dodges
street name-change· bullet
--for now, anyway
BY SN BIANCA
The latest bit of megacity fine-tuning sent little ripples of
consternation round the Market beginning of February.
Because of amalgamation, there are now hundreds of duplicate
street names in Toronto, causing confusion to couriers,
cabbies, and, potentially, cops.
To head chaos off at the
pass, Toronto Works department
compiled a list of the
two hundred or so offending
streets, along with recommendations
for how to
rename them.
.. Horror of horrors, Kensington
Avenue made the
list, thanks to an identicallynamed
suburban cousin (in
Willowdale).
How are you going to
INSIDE
decide which street gets the
chop? we asked. Simple, was
the reply -- whichever one
has fewer residents. (Which
is when the aforementioned
ripple of consternation
started.) I mean, by those
rules, all it would take would
be one highrise on the
Willowdale Kensington Ave,
and our Kensington Ave
would be history!
Continued, page 3
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So, what's happening with .......................... page 2,3,5
Neighbourhood news roundup ••.•..•..•....••••••...••••••. page 3
Living Kensington: Stan Mazur remembered ••. page 4,5
Community calendar ••.••••.••••• :......................... page 5
Kensington Festival: Job Posting ...·................ page 6
. Stan "the Worm Man"Mazur died on a bitteily cold
night, January 8 2000, 45 years to the day after his birth.
· He succumbed to hypothermia in the Warden Woods along
Taylor Creek, where as a child he wandered, and as an
adult he returned, to clean up the.creek and to meditate.
The "main stream media" jumped at the news -- Stan
was going to be their "putting a human face to homelessness"
-story of the week. (One TV station even ran file
footage of cardboard shacks in the Don Valley to illustrate
the story--as if it were there that this sad thing happened.)
But people called them up to paint another picture of
Stan -- he had places to go, things to do, he was dressed
like that because that was the way he always dressed!
This other picture didn't fit the agenda of the day,
though. So the reporters who had been pounding on his
mother's door, and his partner Barb Morrison:s door, went
away.
See Stan Mazur remembered, 4-5
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So, what's
happening
with ... ·
The Kensington Health Centre
(200 bed long-term care
seniors'facility on the site of
the former Doctors Hospital)
The story so far: the 200-'>ed
faci~ity for the south part of
the site.has cleared City
planning scrutiny.
Update: The plan will now
come to Toronto Community
Council for neighbourhood
deputations, March 23 or '24,
as promised by City Councillor
Olivia Chow last March.
There has been no word so far
from the province on the
Hospital's application for a
further 150 long-term care
beds on the north half of the
site (in contradiction of their
earlier statements that they
would provide a "continuum
of care from independent to
chronic" on the site).
Kensingto.n Market
ction Committee
The story so far: on th!f basis
of the group's achievements
since their October 7 AGM,
HRDC extended KMAC's
~w,ding (set to expire Dec 2)
end of March.
ate: at their February
m~~ri!lg. based on steady .
lorogress, a further extension,
June, was granted.
Western Hospital looking at
the idea of "transitiontJl
beds" on the hospital site
The story so far: senior
hospital administrators nixed
permanent housing in two
buildings slated for demolition,
but hospital staff said
they would consider provid-
Continued, next page
Decem6~~ 211999. "Best ever" Festival of Lights, chock-ablock
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' St. Stephen's
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Dodging-the name change bullet
continued from page 1
Several calls to the city later it
was time to sound the all clear
-- at least for now. We
outmuscle the Willowdale
Kensingtonavians by the Grey
Cup-like score of 363 to 62.
The Market rules!
Well, as long as the rules
stay the same, that is. But
there are quite a few streets
out there gearing up to make
as much of a fuss as we would
have if we hadn't been lucky
enough to outmuscle the
Willowdale pretenders. The
issue comes back to the Works
committee March 22, and this
one aint over, not by a long
shot.
A Tasca. -- housing plus
continued from page 1
260-262 Augusta is big
enough for St. Stephen's to
relocate several scattered
programs there. "Our programs
serving youth, new
Canadians, and those who are
homeless will be relocated to
the site" says Liane
Regendanz, executive director
of St Stephen's. "And we are
delighted to be adding a
supportive housing program."
A Tasca has run a hosteV
rooming house in that building
for years. And the possibility
for easily providing
housing on the site was the
, key to St. Stephen's getting
provincial funding for the
project.
25 LEONARD STREET
Another promising initiative
is at 25 Leonard Street (the
medical building s. of the
84 nas·sau st.
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open 8 to 5
on site
. custom
roasting & blending
daily·
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hospital parking garage).
Once Toronto Western
completes its rebuilding, there
will be room in the hospital
for many of the people with '
offices at 25 Leonard. So the
owners have put it up for sale.
K~nsington 'Community
Housing, a KMAC initiative,
is trying for the building
under a new city progra,m for
the conversion of commercial
buildings to affordable
residential housing.
Kensington Community
Housing is also launching
another project --to help
landlords find tenants for
vacant apartments aboye
stores. (Contact KMAC at
593-9604 for information on
either of these two initi~tives.)
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News from the Storefront
by Mike Busija
The KMAC Storefront at 67 ·
Kensington Ave recently
acquired a Pentium computer
from those nice people at
ReBoot Canada, thereby
rebooting the developement of
our community web site at
www.kensingtonmarket.com.
(The site is currently being
updated by Arnold Sprogis,
publisher of The Kensington
Artist and creator of the
Ambient Ping, held Tuesdays
at Po-Boys, 159 Augusta.)
This push to get the market
web-wide comes courtesy of
Web-Weavers, a task force of
KMAC. This group is currently
offering computer
services, internet access, and
e-mail for the community.
Web-Weavers also offers
business a free web site listing
with a brief message about
their products and services.
Free listings are also available
for community events,
festivals, art shows and
community fund raising. Call
593-9604. . .
Kensington Market business
owners may also have their
Tom's
own storefront business
webpage on the KMAC site
for a fee of $50 per year plus a
$10 a month hosting fee. This
offer includes a photograph,
about 200 words of copy and 3
months free hosting.
So, WHAT's
HAPPENING WITH
ing "transitional accommodation"
on site for people
discharged from their hospital
with nowhere appropriate to
go.
Update: staff from cross-town
St. Michael's Hospital, which
has implemented a program
like this, will attend a meeting
of the Toronto Western
Hospital Community Advisory
Committee Wednesday March
23 at 5pm (room 6-103,
Fraser Fell Pavilion) to
explain and answer questions
about their program.
The proposed 1 000-sq ft
storefront community space in
the Kensington Lofts?
The story so far: a commu- -
Continued, page 5
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Stan Mazur, remembered
continued from front cover
I. SNAKE-MAN STAN
Stan rocketed through school,
landing in university at age 17 and
graduating very quickly with a
Zoology degree. Reptiles were his
fascination, going back to childhood
when he would spend hours
observing and collecting frogs, .
turtles and snakes in his Warden
Woods "back yard". It was a
wonderful and mysterious childhood.
"These past two years we'd bike
out from the Market to his mother's
in Scarborough," Barbara Morrison
recalls, and, even 25 years later, ne
could show me the exact SpPts
where he had discovered creatures,
remembering the exact species· and
numbers found."
As a teenager, Stanjoined the
Toronto Herpetological Society, and
his early heroes were the men and
women who belonged to this group
of weird-for-their-time frog and
reptile lovers. In his twenties, Stan
built up one of the largest private
collections of reptiles around. He
had rare frogs, lizards, turtles,
caymans, even an owl, and his
favourite "Bruce," a seven-foot
long alligator.
In these years Stan was working
with the Board of Education,
touring schools and doing tv
programs to teach children about
these mysterious creatures. And
Bruce was always the star of the
show. "The school thing points out
Stan's commitment to dedeinonizing
reptiles in people's
minds, and also how fantastic he
was with kids" says Larry Walker,
who first met Stan towards the tailend
of this period of Stan 's life.
Larry also tells a story of a "raid"
on one of the many-places Stan and
his menagerie lived during this
time--a farm near Stouffville.
Police, convinced that something
fishy must be going on, found a
reason to visit, with the fire
department, and asked to inspect
the basement. "Carry on" said
Stan.
Sounds of Bruce grunting
followed from the basement, after
which the visitors emerged "white
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and shaken" from the basement.
One large fireman in shock
said "What the hell is this?!"
And Stan started to calmly
explain the origin and species,
habitat, behaviour and feeding
preference of each reptile to
the fireman.
Larry aiso recalls Stan's
third-floor attic in the
Stouffville farrnltouse "most of
it eight foot high stacks of
paper in rows -- all materials
he had gathered on snakes,
and in one corner Stan's
mattress."
"Stan the Snake Man"
became a noted authority, at.
one time a consultant to the
reptile departments ofboih
the Zoo and the ROM. And
whenthe humane society
came across a snake in a toilet
or a croc in a tub, Stan was
their man to call.
Carl McCleary, four or fiv~
years older than Stan, and still ·
a die-hard member of the
Ontario Hecpetolog-ical
Society met Stan in 1979 at
Saint Marine's Fish Importing,
biggest importer in
Ontario, out by the airport.
Carl, who had already been
there a year, did the reptiles.
Stan did the fish.
Carl remembers, on a dare
from a potential buyer putting
his arm ih a tank-containing
two electric eels --with Stan
egging him on. "I got zapped,
totally numbed my arm,
couldn't feel a thing for hours ..
I never saw anyone laugh as
hard as Stan, and he never let
me forget it."
Of Stan's collection, Carl
says-"He had some snakes•that
were totally unfamiliar to the
pet trade or even to zoos. I
remember he had these 18-
inch south east Asian, Thailand
I think, undergrounddwelling
snakes. I mean
nobody knew anything about
them."
-Carl also remembers being
particularly struck by a cage of
Stan's with some blood pythons
in it -- very difficult snakes to
keep in captivity. "The cage had
six inches of mud in the bottom,
Stan explaining he'd figured ·
they like to hide in. the mud." If
you wanted to see them, you'd
have to throw them food, out
they'd come, grab and be gone,
back into the mud.
"The interesting thing," Carl
said, "keeping blood pythons in
mud is standard practice, everywhere,
now. Back then, there was
no~ng known."
AGE
my. love
Ill. STAN
THE WoRM MAN
This last period of Stan's life
revolved around his final sustain-
ing dream: to make the world a
better place for those who contin-
ued and those who followed. His
vision began here in Kensington
Market. He wanted to see the
Market function as a healthy urban
ecosystem. The Kensington Market
Vermicomposting Pilot Project
. imagined a day when the commu­
nity housed a large composting
strange time--here centre to deal With the tons of
was the NDP
threatening to
waste generated in the Market each
week.
launch the first Instead of producing garbage for
big attack on landfill, the project would produce
general welfare, jobs for streetkids and the homewhich
was bad, less, collecting wet waste, sorting,
but at the same running hand truck deliveries,
This part of Stan's life had pretty
time also encouraging
community economic
getting rid of traffic congestion and
pollution. The workers would have
much fallen apart_ by the time he development (CED), which was a warm clean place to work, and an
arrived in the market in the late good.. Stan did a lot, got mountains unlimited supply of fresh food to
eighties, but he carried from it a of stuff from the ministry library, alleviate hunger. The edible food
long scar, from wrist to shoulder. until they twigged to what ne was would feed the hungry, and what
Stan had been bitten by a habu, a doing." was left would feed the worms.
deadly Vietnamese snake he was It was during this time that Stan And the worms in turn would
working with. "What did you do?'' became interested in vermicomp- produce top grade compost which
Barbara Morrison asked him. "I osting (composting using worms). would generate income from sales
pate, not on a
pedestal but in
any way possible"
says Peter Reble,
who knew him
from LIFT and
meetings of
COSAR (Coalition
for Social
Assistance
Reform). "He
didn't have to do
what he did, but
he did--available
not just for the
cause but for
individual people
who needed it."
Hilary Mackenzie
also rememhers
Stan from -
LIFT in the mideighties.
"It was a
LIVING
unexpected parents. "A new light
and purpose entered his life --"
Barbara Morrison says, "his son
Sean Fu Chian. When I first met
Stan he hadn't had a drink in
almost 2 years. He was going up to
Ottawa regularly every 2 or 3
weeks to visit his son." /
gave myself the antivenom injec:- _"His first vermicomposter was right for all involved. A self-sustaining
- tion, then phoned the hospital to let here in the LIFT offices" says system.
them know I was on my way in." Hilary. "That first batch of worms
The surgeon knew nothing about were fed almost nothing except Stan began, one man and the
snake bites and, despite Stan's LIFT office coffee grounds, and boy "Worm Shack"! (in a laneway off
eXP.licit instructions, opted for did they thrive!" Augusta Ave). He built large
primitive measures to get the "Most of all I remember his composters from scrap materials
poison out, ·resulting in the massive incredible humour and resilience"
scar and a ··shortened ten<ron that Hilary concludes. -~ ·- ~.~
that he scavenged, and he collected
waste from the shops in a large
permanently curled the little finger Jann Denton who also knew him trike. It made sense that his chosen
on one of his hands. around this time echoes Hilary's .energy mechanism for harvesting
"Booze played a big part in him words. "He was a light who didn't the compost was the most efficient
losing the handle on this part of his ever go OJit; he was willing to take known to man--"pedal power."
life" says Larry Walker. "But he time to do things. I really admired After dark he could be seen in the
never gave up, as long as I knew his ability to always bounce back. streets doing comparative weighthim,
on the dream that one day I'd call him a soul brightener. studies of the garbage produced
Toronto would have its own That's what he was." nightly by individual shops. This--
"Serpentarium."
he thought-- waist deep in wet
And around this time Stan the · waste -- was great fun!
11. LIFT AND DEED scientist began his serious study of · "Many times" says Barbara
The middle period for Stan was the mind, body, spirit and human Morrison "I would bundle up and
spent working tirelessly for organizations
that helped people in need. to alcohol, and his spare time was shack at midnight to find Stan
health. He recognized· his addiction take warm food down to the worm-
"The great mass of disenfran- _ now spent either battling or blissfully poring over reports on the.
chised" Stan would say. He worked succumbing to it.
latest soil sample analysis, or
for LIFT (Low Income Families He became a master researcher results of input vs output productivon
the causes, effects and treat- ity of.various composters."
Together), DEED (Downtown
Economic Enterprise Development ments of the illness, building up · "One time when I was loudly
consortium), and w~s on pumerous mountains of paper on the subject, complaining about how all my
other advisory boards and committees
across the city.
and welfare reform and CED. the heck are my Bach preludes and
the way he had done with snakes tapes seemed to disappear -- where
"Poor people don't have a lot of . And it was also around this time ·my favourite Mozart A minor! -- I
champions and I really honour him that Stan found out that he and was aware of a sudden and odd
' for the effort he made to partici-
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Kensington as usual proved to be a
tough nut to crack, in terms of
who his father was."
doing anything· systematic about Here at the DRUM Stan helped
the garbage problem, but Stan out for three years, doing whatever
found two other outlets for his needed to be done. But most of alf
dream. One was Original . he liked distribution, striding out iri
Vermitech, out on Queen Street any kind of weather with a thou-
East, which puts together wormbox sand copies in a shopping cart "to
kits, including worms, for sale research the neighbourhood",
around the country.
coming back, hours later, face and
The other was Scadding Court hands black from newsprint, proof
Community Centre, at Bathurst and that the job had been properly
Dundas, where Stan's own done.
vermiculture project has found a One time, distributing in
permanent home, as part of Alexandra Park, during the really
Scadding Court's Urban Agricul- tense drug days of the early eightture
project.
ies, Stan started to push a paper
Jim Challoner was a eo-worker of through a door, only to have the
Stan's at Original Vermitech for door fly open. Upon which he
the two years right up to Stan' s found himself staring at several
death. "He was a really generous se·mi-automatic firearms, all
guy" 5ays Jim. "He would do pointing at him.
anything for people. He respected He had stumbled into the middle
the world, and hated what we are of a transaction and they thought
doing to it."
· they had been busted.
Carol Lyon Wallace met Stan "Pardon the interruption" said
through the Scadding Court ~arden _ Stan, "it's your DRUM" and he set
project, and is now main contact it down, carefully on the floor. And
person for that project. "The future then "Carry on" he said, smiled,
of the projects he was most inter- and strolled away to carry on with
ested in at Scadding Court looks
bright" she says --"they are continuing."'
his delivery.
"It's hard to believe that I won't see
Krista Fry, who works at the that smile again" says Barb
Scadding Cafe on Dundas, remem- Matthews, Kensington Market
bers feeding the worms as a Action Committee coordinator.
volunteer at Scadding two. years "On the street, without exception,
ago, soon after Stari arrived there. he took the time to stop and ask
"And now we're selling worm how things were going with my
compost from The Scadding Court work. Then he'd begin to grin, his
vermi-project that Stan-started -- in · entire face and body telling me that
2lb bags, and the project is housed he knew the answer, even before I
in its own room in back of the began to reply. But he never
community centre." She is confi- stopped asking. I valued his
dent that the project will go on and sincerity and generous spirit and
hopefully grow. Scadding is hoping will miss running into him."
to get into supplying community
members with their own worm kits,
starting this year.
IV. "CARRY ON"
Here at the DRUM we first met
Stan around ten years ago, introduced
to us by jazz Singer Kate
Burt McNeil, then a Kensington
resident and regular columnist for
the DRUM. Kate, as far as we can
tell, knew Stan longer than anyone
else around.
"What should definitely not be
left out of any picture of him," she
says "is that the thing he knew best .
was how to treat human beings--his
kindness and thoughtfulness. Other
people will tell you about the
causes he worked for, but he was
the kind of person who if they
found a friend needing help would
drop everything else for tlu::ee days
straight to look after them. He was
one of those people we wish we
knew 25000 of. .
"He spent his entire childhood in
those woods--a child for all seasons.
You should say also that he
died in the surroundings he loved~and
that he always recovered from
his setbacks. And that I hope
someday we can teach his child
Everyone I spoke to for this article
seemed unable to digest one main
fact-- that Stan isn't·going to be
ninning into us on the street, or
suddenly there on the other side of
a door.
It's as if his death has suddenly
bust in on us all, in the middle of
our various transactions.
"Pardon the interruption" Stan
would say. "Carry on."
David Perlman
KENSINGTON MARKET DRUM FEBRUARY 15 2000 PAGE 5
"GOING WITH THE FLOW"
A STAN-TYPE LIST
OF LOCAL RESOURCES
AND THINGS TO DO
Worm Boxes
Original Vermitech Systems
2328 Queen Street East
Telephone 416-693-1027
Vermicomposting,
Community gardening,
Urban agriculture
Carol Lyon Wallace,
Scadding Court
Community Centre,
392-0335
Kensington Market ·
Waste Management Committee
1 Oam Mondays at
67 Kensington A ve
Kensington Planter Network
For info: 944-8404
LIFT
(Low income families together)
238 Queen Street West, 597-9400
Kensington Market
Action Committee
67 Kensington A venue
593-9604
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nity meeting June 16 1999 said that no
further decisions should be taken on this
until the new board of the Kensington
Market Working Group has decided
where it stands on the issue. The space is
now available for occupancy.
Update: At a February KMAC meeting a
KMAC member who was also elected to
the KMWG board last July said that
there had been no KMWG board meetings
in six months, and that as far as he
knew, the Working Group's offer to lease
the space had expired.
Contacted by :ORUM for clarification,
Alex Spiegel, project manager for the
developer, said that the developer has
never heard from the new board of the
Working Group. He pointed out that in
terms of their original "Memorandum of
Understanding" with the community, the
developer is technically free _to offer the
space elsewhere if the community does
.. not -occupy the space by the time construction
is complete (expected by mid­
March). But they are not looking for a
loophole to get out of the deal and
"would welcome expressions of interest
(at 863-0202) from bona fide community
groups interested in using the space."
Questions to So What s Happening with
Fax 603-3787: e-mail drumkm@web.net
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COMMUNITY
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St. Stephen's Community House
invites you to a
l,ublic Community Meeting
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Come and hear all about our exciting new
·program building in Kensington Market!
Senior staff: Board members and the architect
will be available to-answer your questions.
When: Wednesday, February 23,2000
7:00- 9:00PM
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Where: St. Stephen 's Community Hou.'ie
260-262 Augusta Avenue .
(just South of College Street)
Call Berhana Belay at 926-8221
Jo register betore Feb. 21.
Staff will interpret Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
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· • Pamphlets and brochures
• Books and videos, databases
• Community information:
• Toronto Social Housing
Connections
• Health, social, and recreation
programs
• Free and low cost workshops
• Printed resources in Chinese, English,
Portuguese. Spanish. and Vietnamese
• Falamos Portugues
• Hablamos Espanol
Monday 9am - 5pm Tuesday 1:30pm 8pm
Wednesday 9am- 5pm Thursday 9am- 8pm
Friday 9am- 5 pm
Tel: 603 - 7200 Fax: 603-7203
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Cecil Community Centre
Winter & Spring Programs
Looking to get out of the cold? Why not drop by 8ecil Community Centre and join in
on some great programs. We offer activities for children, youth, adults, seniors and
families. Programs include: the Toy Lenders Library & Caregiver's Drop-In,
Children's Craft & Reading Circle, Community Library, Community Drop-In, Youth
Program & ESL Classes. We have also re-opened the Free Clothing Project for
babies, toddlers, children and women. The Clothing Project will operate on Monday
evenings from 6 PM-9:30PM and Tuesday and Thursday from 10 AM to 12:30 PM.
During the winter season we will continue to offer YOGA and Wen-do courses.
FREE TAX CLINICS for individuals and families on low income will
start March 22. For ·more information and to register for a clinic
appointment, please call 598-2022 or 392-1090. Language of service
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58 Cecil Street
(416) 392-1090
include English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish. Volunteers .
interested in assisting with the Free Tax Clinic should contact Susan. I (East of Spadma, one
block south of College)
For more information on any of our programs please drop by the '------------"
Centre or give us a call.
Scadding Court Community -centre
Invites YOU to attend our daily
drop-in Program_for Parents
and Children aged 0 - 5.
Caregivers w elcome too!
When: Mon. - Wed. 9-1 I am
Thurs. I 0-1 2 noon
Friday 9- 1 I am
Where: Childcare Room, SCCC
707 Dundas St. W.
(at Bathurst)

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Job Posting
Kensington Ma,ket Summer Festival
Coordinator Position
·Deadline: Tuesday, February 2'9, 2000
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The Kensington Market Summer Festival
will take place on August 12 & 13, 2000.
The Coordinator of the Summer Festival
will work with the Festival Committee to ensure
that the Festival takes place as planned.
This is a two"phase contract position.
Phase one is part-time and phase two is full-time .
Compensation for this position
wiU depend upon experience.
If you wish to apply for this position,
· or want details about the position, please contact
Maria Santos, at St. Stephen's Community House .
·. A detailed job description for the position
can be found on the festival website located at
http://www. kensingtonfestival. corn .
Resumes, can be dropped off, faxed, e-mailed or mailed:
St. Stephen's Community House
91 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto, ON M5T 2N8
Phone: 416-926-8221: Fax: 416-9'6'6-2178
E-mail: festival@cpreal.com
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