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re6 economist suntribune august 13 1986 student landscaping unionville man starts business by dave sandiford jason krowitz of unionville decided that this summer would be different working for a local landscaping com pany last summer wasnt challenging him or paying very well id get up in the morning make my five bucks an hour i didnt really want to work very hard i like to take pride in my work and you cant really do that for five bucks an hours said jason so he decided to take the plunge put ting his landscaping experience to good use by starting his own business student landscaping jason himself is an interesting indi vidual who has lived in unionville for 10 years with the exception of a oneyear hiatus in florida hes an athletic 20yearold who while at markham district high school played on the ontario championship senior rug by team and on the schools infamous football squad jason decided to con tinue his education in vancouver at the university of british columbia ubc where he has also continued his football career as an outside linebacker he hopes to go into the business world after achieving a business degree while at ubc last winter jason started the wheels in motion planning his busi ness on paper and successfully applying for a student venture capital loan from the government and as soon as he got home and bought his equipment student landscaping was ready to go jason lined up custom ers by knocking on doors in new subdivi sions and by advertising in the econom ist and sun his brotherinlaw helped with some early estimates and his mother assisted with some basic bookkeeping techni ques student landscaping also employs another two people whom jason de scribes as a couple of characters russ blunderfield is a simon fraser university student and a long time friend of jasons while mike soden is a centennial college student who eats the same thing every day for lunch they are a well built crew of young men jason is a big sixfooter russ is at least sixfoot twoinches and mike stands at sixfoot fourinches jason claims this makes them the biggest landscaping company in mar kham if only in personal stature on a more serious note jason is pleased to pay the jovial duo more than the norm because as he says i can drop them off somewhere and trust them to com plete the work the company provides most of the typical landscaping services including cutting grass commercially and domestically interlocking brick work patio laying and garden bedding arrangements have been made to con tinue maintenance for the customers when jason and russ go back to british columbia in september next year jason is considering doing driveways as well ah in all jason is happy to be working for himself and confident of a future in which he will control his own summer job market there is a lot of freedom and i get to create things there is no thing like creating things ooniiiijiirij top producer markham office 2942533 unionville office sylvia houghton wanda kerr jennie 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