On a sunny Monday morning this week, Ihor Kondyra was working in the Hamilton Park Montessori School’s rooftop garden, looking perfectly at ease trimming dead stems from a grape vine to make it ready to grow along a trellis. “My dear friend,” he said with a gesture to the planters, pots, and beekeeping equipment constituting the garden, “this is my soul.” A retired director of a regional unemployment agency, a multi-instrumentalist with a particular interest in the flute, a holder of post-secondary degrees in both music and economics, and most recently a refugee from the Russian invasion of Uk…
