From: Food Share <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:03:27 -0500
Subject: Growing Community: Food Projects and Networks Conference - Please
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Growing Community
Food Projects and Networks in Ontario
Friday, April 30, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

FoodShare Toronto, in partnership with the Ontario Public Health
Association, is pleased to invite you to come and hear the latest news
on food programs in Ontario.  New projects, networks and community
processes aimed at enhancing local food security are thriving across the
province.  This is a chance to come and hear about innovation, and get
new ideas to start or build on food programs in your area.

There will be reports from London, Belleville, Thunder Bay, North Bay,
Parry Sound, Peterborough, Toronto and others.  Topics will include The
Good Food Box, Community Gardens, Collective Cooking, Gleaning, CSA,
CED, school food projects, municipal partnerhships and more.  There will
be panels, workshops and networking sessions.

Keynote address by Mark Winne, Executive Director of the Hartford Food
System in Connecticut, and co-founder of the U.S. Community Food
Security Coalition.

This conference has been made possible with funding from the Ontario
Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Branch, and there is some money
available for travel subsidy.

To get more information and a registration form, e-mail us at
[log in to unmask] or call (416) 392- 6653 or (416) 392-1657.



Visit our Web Site for an Overview of ALL of our Quality of Life Projects!
http://www.utoronto.ca/qol

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 All children belong to society.
 But obviously society will have to be changed
   in order to make it treat its children better.

       -Halldor Laxness  "The Atom Station"
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
voice:    (416) 978-7567
fax: (416) 978-2087
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