The
Stonegate Farmers' Market, a 13-stall weekly summer market run by the
Stonegate Community Health Centre, has received a $1,400 grant from the city to beautify itself.
Since getting the grant, part of the city's
Neighbourhood Beautification Program, some new signs were made up and some of the noticeably old tables were replaced.
The market is set up every summer weekend just west of the Humber and north of the Queensway on Park Lawn Road, which its administrator calls the "invisible dividing line between the neighbourhood's lower income apartments and higher income homes.
"We also had a competition," says Julia Graham, the Stonegate community health worker in charge of the market, which is currently in its sixth year, "where customers could vote on which stall was the nicest, and whichever vendor won would get a tent to set up their stall under."
In addition to a couple of tents, the grant money will also buy chairs for the many seniors the market attracts each week.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Julia Graham
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