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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com While a 15-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with the string of sexual assaults taking place in the Christie Pits area, residents are still taking steps to help make their community safer. A C h r i s t i e P i t s Re s i d e n t s Association (CPRA) is in the process of forming a safety subcommittee to address concerns within the area. A meeting was slated to take place yesterday, after the Mirror’s deadline Tuesday. “I’m looking for people who want to be block captains,” said Cristina Juarez Nilsson of the CPRA at a prior meeting, held Oct. 17, days before police arrested the suspect. Dozens attended the Oct. 17 meeting to express their concerns to members of Toronto police 14 Division and the Toronto police sex crimes unit. Juarez Nilsson noted the meeting drew far more attendees than usual. “It’s very obvious that when you have a challenge in the community, that’s when people come together,” she said. The meeting brought about assurances from police that they would pay special attention to the neighbourhood, a sentiment reiterated by Toronto police Chief Bill Blair, >>>RESIDENTS, page 5

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The venues exist, but capacity is bursting at the seams and forcing potential renters to look elsewhere. That was the consensus expressed at a public consultation meeting looking into affordable and sustainable cultural spaces for not-forprofit and community groups in Ward 21, held at Tarragon Theatre Thursday, Oct. 18. “We are at absolute, total capacity for what we do,” said Gideon Arthurs, general manager of Tarragon Theatre on Bridgman Avenue. “Our facility has become our biggest challenge right now, not our biggest strength.” The goal of the consultations is to give councillors a ward-specific priority list for cultural infrastructure as defined by their constituents and community cultural stakeholders. Funded by a grant from the Province of Ontario, these consultations will address one of the recommendations of the Creative Capital Gains Report, endorsed by Toronto City Council in 2011. This year, consultation sessions will be held in 20 wards. The remaining 24 wards will be surveyed in 2013 and beyond. The consultant, Lord Cultural Resources, and the city are compiling a list of what’s currently available space-wise in the ward and what residents would like to see. This will help local councillors focus on where priorities are when it comes to Section 37 benefits. According to the City of Toronto, Section 37 of the Planning Act permits >>>DEVELOPMENT, page 18

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and its surroundings. “One of the things I do is try to find the geological nature beneath us because if someone hears moans, it could just be water travelling through sand,” said consultant Robin Bellamy. The group’s scientific bent belies the stereotype perpetuated on paranormal television shows. PSICAN members pride themselves on taking an evidence-based, “no gimmicks” approach, and are quick to dismiss the television types as cranks and crackpots. “The only way to be able to prove anything paranormal is to use science and the scientific method,” said PSICAN member John Mizzi. “(Television paranormals) aren’t taking a real scientific approach with repeatable results. You need to take evidence and build on it, work with a hypothesis and figure out if things are or aren’t paranormal.” Indeed, anything that appears to be evidence at first blush is immediately questioned as the group looks for rational explanations. On the tour of the Royal Conservatory, when Mizzi found a cold spot, it was quickly dismissed as being near an air conditioning vent, while eerie noises in the attic were tied to the

heating system. “It’s just the furnace,” said Michelle Mizzi. “You can hear it going through the pipes.” The group records the entire tour and watches and listens to the footage closely in hopes of catching anything that cannot be explained away. Armed with his parabola-enhanced tape recorder, John Mizzi makes a point of regularly asking whether there are any entities that would like to make contact. Despite what seems like natural skepticism, there is no doubting that the group believes firmly in the presence of ghosts and attest to having heard voices on multiple investigations. “If they’re former humans, they’re going to miss this life we have,” John Mizzi said. “A lot of them want to be left alone but some want to play with you.” He added that most ghosts are either unaware that they are dead or they wish to be allowed to continue their existence in peace. Quite often, he said, they will whisper, making his parabola dish useful in picking up quieter voices. “At first, I was just getting oneword answers and now I’m getting full sentences,” he said.

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Change for Kids Halloween program helps Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab hospital ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Toronto residents are being asked to give more than a treat this Halloween. They can also hand out Change for Kids coins that give trick-ortreaters a chance to win prizes while supporting Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada’s largest hospital for disabled children. “This is the first year we’ve ever run this program,” said Tracey Bailey, president of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation. “Our goal is to raise $100,000.” This is how the Change for Kids initiative works: People can buy an activated Change for Kids coin card for $5 at any Scotiabank branch in the GTA. Cards obtained from other distributors such as Spirit Halloween, Costco, Toys “R” Us, newspapers or magazines can be activated for $5 by visiting www. changeforkids.ca. People can then pop out the coins from their card and give them to trick-or-treaters. Children and parents should be told to visit www.changeforkids.ca and enter their coin PIN code for their chance to win prizes. “The PIN number is important because Scotiabank will make an extra $5 gift to Holland Bloorview every time a PIN code is entered,” Bailey said. 500 PRIZES There are more than 500 prizes, including a weekend stay at the Great Wolf Lodge for your family and nine other families of your choice. Change for Kids also features two events this weekend: a Halloween party at the Ontario Science Centre Saturday night and a “Monster March and Fun Fair” at Holland Bloorview on Sunday. Admission to the Halloween party is $18 and includes access to • 2001 Audio • Best Buy • Canadian Tire • Food Basics • Future Shop • Home Depot • Humber College • Leon’s • Loblaw’s • Lowe’s • Marcheleo’s Gourmet

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oronto’s neighbourhoods must be places where residents have opportunities to come together to learn, volunteer and play. This month’s “A Closer Look” feature delves into the issues of affordable community space in the city and the challenges community groups have in gaining access. We looked at both a city-wide experience and assessed the situation in our community, looking at the issue from the standpoint of not only specific user groups, but also those who rent out their facilities for community use. At the root of this challenge is money – or lack of it. Earlier this year, the cash-strapped City of Toronto, facing an outcry from local sports organizations, ultimately waived a permit fee hike for the use of city fields that our view would have added $1.5 million to the city’s coffers, but also City should would have threatened those organizations’ survival. list available According to a report from the Wellesley Institute, spaces titled Exercising Good Policy: Increasing Access to Recreation in Toronto’s 2013 Budget increasing access to recreational facilities is a smart investment, one that pays off with improved health of the populace. We agree the City of Toronto has a role to play in ensuring affordable access to community space for artistic and recreation groups. But perhaps there’s more to achieving this than by waiving fees. There are facilities in the city (places of worship come to mind) whose operators are looking for user groups as well. As a representative from a church in Weston noted, about the only challenge with being a landlord is getting the word out that space in the facility is available for rent. Would it make sense, then, for the city to have a centralized area online where not-for-profit facilities and potential user groups can be matched up? There is also reason for optimism. One of the recommendations in the Wellesley report calls for stable funding for youth outreach workers programs in order to enable positive health outcomes for our young people. Earlier this month, the province announced funding for 35 new youth outreach workers, with 20 of those spots earmarked for Toronto. While a provincial funding announcement from a minority government is not quite the definition of ‘stable’, that announcement, which took place at the Jane Street Hub in York, is a start and is recognition of the need for those kinds of investments in our communities.

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Re: ‘Reader talks privatization and meat,’ Letters, Oct. 11 The TTC probably needs a shake-up, but this civic corporation exists because of the private corporations who initially ran the public transportation service in Toronto were so inept at the job that Toronto had no choice but to take over the whole thing and establish the Toronto Transportation Commission. According to Toronto historian Mike Filey, the private transportation companies refused service to areas deemed unprofitable, which apparently did not sit well with the Toronto tax-paying citizens who felt they were entitled to such service. After all, any private enterprise is going to put profits before service. Privatize the TTC and see how fast service to non-profitable routes are chopped and how many Torontonians are cut off from public transportation. The TTC puts service first, something private companies cannot afford to do. Bill Tee

Battle ignites over smoking ban at city hall Those who think Toronto council’s tug-of-war flipflopping under Mayor Rob Ford is a new development in Toronto politics either have short memories or are new in town. Municipal councils have flipped and flopped frequently and sometimes with great gusto. Remember smoking in bars and restaurants? Back in the day, it used to be commonplace to have your calamari dusted with nicotine. Second-hand smoke was a health issue, but for many, commerce and culture trumped science and medicine. The first attempts at smoking bans, in the mid1990s, happened in two former municipalities: North York, and Toronto. In both cases, councillors bowed to pressure from restaurant owners and the tobacco industry, and

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to mirror Toronto’ ban and for a time, it seemed as though all was settled. This week, the Toronto Board of Health decided to ramp it up a notch. Having sent smokers outside, the board recommended starting consultation on a bylaw that would make smoking on outdoor patios, at sports fields, outside buildings and on hospital grounds illegal. One can never entirely predict these things, but so far it seems as though the kerfuffle of the late 1990s won’t see a repeat this time. According to a report from the Basrur’s successor, Dr. David McKeown, there is more widespread support for smoking bans now than 15 years ago. The dire predictions the hospitality industry made last time simply didn’t come to pass. This is not to say that I’d lay money on it happening;

after all, Toronto council could well do another flip-flop on its 15-year-old opposition to casinos and approve one later this year. And while the memories of the Mad Men-era smokeem-if-you’ve-got-em ethos may have been stronger in the late 1990s than it is now, we are in the midst of the Angry Man era of Fordfamily red-meat conservatism here at city hall. So we’ll see how this goes. Now that provincial law has enshrined the city’s existing smoking bylaw, there’s no risk of that reversing. The question of what happens outside is very much in play. And given everything else on our plate, the last thing Toronto needs is a bare-knuckled rematch of the smoking war. But given the crowd at city hall these days, that may be just what we get.

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Toronto Police have arrested a 15-year-old suspect in connection with a series of sexual assaults that have evoked fear in the Bloor and Christie streets area since the summer. According to police, the young offender was arrested at roughly 11 p.m. last Saturday following yet another incident in the Roxton Road and Bloor Street West area. Staff inspector Mary Lee Metcalfe and police chief Bill Blair addressed the media on Monday, but could not divulge many details due to the age of the suspect and the fact that evidence is still being gathered and

will be used in a trial. The suspect has been charged with 14 counts of sexual assault and two counts of criminal harassment in a series of incidents that took place between Thursday, Aug. 16 and Saturday, Oct. 20 in an area bounded by Barton Avenue to the north, College Street to the south, Ossington Avenue to the west and Palmerston Avenue to the east. In all of the cases, the suspect is alleged to have approached the women from behind before sexually assaulting them and fleeing the scene. - Justin Skinner

>>>from page 1 following the weekend arrest of the suspect, who vowed there would still be an increased police presence in the community for the time being at least. The sexual assaults, in which 14 women were attacked between Aug. 16 and Oct. 20, underscored some issues within the community. According to a safety audit conducted by the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children (METRAC), commissioned by Councillor Mike Layton in September, fewer than half of participants said they always

feel safe in the area. The audit showed lighting in the area is often insufficient, with some street lights burned out and others obscured by overgrown tree branches. Alleyways and unlit portions of Christie Pits Park were highlighted as some of the areas where residents feel particularly unsafe. Layton noted police could only do so much to ensure community safety, urging residents to take an active role in monitoring their own neighbourhood. “It’s about getting people out there and getting them to watch

what’s going on,” he said. Steps discussed at the Oct. 17 meeting included free Wen-Do martial arts training for women, walk home programs and improved communication between neighbours and community agencies. Layton pledged his office would be happy to dedicate resources to improving community safety. n Anyone looking to get involved with the CPRA or join the safety subcommittee is asked to contact the CPRA at info@christiepits. com

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hen the Etobicoke Basketball Association (EBA) got hit with news of a more than 333 per cent fee increase at half its gyms last month, the impact was forecast as potentially catastrophic – especially to the 1,200-kid strong league’s lower income players. That’s because, like many volunteer-driven, notfor-profit sports a organizations closer look across Toronto, the bulk of EBA’s player Inside fees go directly Toronto toward facilities permits. For such groups already operating on shoe-string budgets, any increase in permit fees – like EBA’s recent threefold bump-up at Toronto District School Board (TDSB) gyms – must be passed along to its participants, explained Joe DaSilva, an EBA board member and volunteer coach. “If we ran a middle class league, we would have no problem because we’d just increase our fees and people would say that was fine, but we’re working very hard to make (EBA) very inclusive of everybody,” he said, noting that many of the league’s players come from single-parent homes, making fees a barrier. “This (TDSB increase) really affects how many kids we can afford to subsidize. We gather funds during the year to subsidize around 200 kids, because how do you turn away a kid who shows up with $50 and says, ‘This is all I have. I want to play basketball’?” EBA is far from Toronto’s only not-for-profit struggling with the search for affordable space – just as the TDSB isn’t the only provider struggling to accommodate them. The changes to the permitting fee schedule at the TDSB, explained board spokesperson Ryan Bird, came about because of a shortfall between the cost of supporting the community use of school space and the revenue collected. “Before these measures were voted on, we were subsidizing our permit holders to the tune of $11 million each year. The fact is we couldn’t continue subsidizing it to that level,” he explained, noting the TDSB issues close to 20,000 permits each year in its 550 schools across the city. Across the city, a series of fee increases announced this year at both the City of Toronto and school board levels – arguably the two biggest providers of gym,

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playing field and community spaces in the city – have left many sporting groups crying ‘foul’ over a lack of affordable space. “Gyms are not like condominiums, they’re not being built on every corner – there’s a finite inventory of them and the permit office holds all the cards,” DaSilva said. DaSilva’s concerns echo those expressed by many in the city’s minor baseball community earlier this year, when playing fields were struck by a $1.5-million fee hike proposal by the City of Toronto. Groups like the Weston Baseball Association (WBA), Etobicoke Girls Softball League and the East York Baseball Association said some of the city-owned fields they, as not-forprofit associations, had previously used for free, were now facing increases that could put some of the leagues out of business. “If they had implemented that, it would have killed us,” WBA President Roy Baksh told The York Guardian back in April, shortly after city council waived the increased fees – which would have meant an extra $15,000 for

the WBA – for a year. While Baksh expressed hope the city might provide an exemption next year to leagues like his providing sporting opportunities in high needs areas, there is still no promise the increased fees won’t be implemented across the board in 2013. With increases at both cityowned playing fields and in the TDSB school facilities due to come down in just a short few months, sporting groups across the city have been left scrambling to see how best they can accommodate all their players – not just the ones who can afford the increase in fees they’ll be forced to levy upon them. At a time when sports groups are getting hit hardest, a report emerged this month from the Wellesley Institute, urging the City of Toronto to improve the health of its residents by increasing access to recreational outlets. “City councillors have opportunities, right now, to improve the health of Torontonians that don’t require massive investments or complicated agreements with other levels of government,” reads the report, entitled Exercising Good Policy: Increasing Access to Recreation in Toronto’s 2013 Budget. “One of these opportunities is quite simple: increase access to recreational services for Torontonians.” Coming as it does in the wake of yet another violence plagued summer in Toronto, the report and its recommendations are reminiscent of reaction to Toronto’s Summer of the Gun in 2005, when funding for community programming rolled in as a means to stop youth violence. One of the results of that influx was the Community Hub initiative in some of Toronto’s most underserved suburban neighbourhoods, where a lack of community space was compounding the challenges of social isolation and poverty faced by many residents. As part of their ongoing Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy – and in partnership with the province, key agency partners, and private funders – United Way Toronto has developed eight community hubs in priority neighbourhoods across the city, funding $1 million toward the

capital costs of each hub, as well as contributing $150,000 annually toward each’s operating costs. “In looking at developing the Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy and hubs in particular, was the fact that, yes, space is a big challenge all over the city, particularly in suburbs,” said Lorraine Duff, United Way Toronto’s director of programming. “So we decided to ensure that some of this space was available for community agencies to use.” Seven of the planned eight hubs will be fully open and operational as of next month, Duff added, noting the hubs in MidScarborough, Crescent Town, Flemingdon Park-Victoria Village, Weston-Mt. Dennis, and Rexdale are currently open, while those in Dorset Park and the Bathurst/ Finch area are set to open by beginning of November. Duff said so far the community spaces within those hubs – including community kitchens, meeting rooms, and in the case of the Rexdale Community Hub, a gym – are always well used and in demand, especially by the kids. The EBA was just one of the community groups impacted by the TDSB’s decision to reclassify its subsidy recipients earlier this year – meaning an “unplanned for and exorbitant” fee hike they say will nearly quadruple their permit fees. Whereas now, as a Level 1 recipient, a single TDSB gym costs the EBA $3.51 an hour on a school night, come Jan. 1 the same gym in the same time slot will cost them $17.10 an hour once they’re shuffled down to Level 2 status – nearly five times as much. And that’s on top of the additional 43.7 per cent hike in fees the board also plans to implement on Jan. 1. While the TDSB has granted the EBA and other groups impacted by the board’s subsidy re-categorization a muchappreciated deferral on the fee hike from its original September implementation date until Jan. 1, the EBA’s DaSilva said the league is left with no choice except to raise registration fees in order to recover the “unplanned for and exorbitant” fee hikes come January. “This, quite simply, will put the price out of reach for a lot of our families. All house and rep team players...this season will now collectively need to find an additional $63,000,” he said of the league’s 1,200 players. “Without a doubt there will be a lot of kids sitting on couches instead of playing hoops as a direct result of this decision.”

Fees could increase greatly for soccer club Organizations such as the North Toronto Soccer Club (NTSC) stand to see their expenses increased greatly with the school board’s decision to bump fees. As a club that rents considerable time on a number of Toronto District School Board (TDSB)-owned spaces, the NTSC stands to see its costs for renting fields increase by 770 per cent and its costs for renting gyms increased anywhere from 108 to 387 per cent. NTSC general manager Doug Blair noted the club is being hit especially hard given that organizations that rent four or more facilities will see rates increase more than organizations that rent three or fewer. “We rent 6,000 hours a year in school board facilities,” he said. “We’re looking at an extra $199,000 a year based on the number of hours we rent, and with HST, that’s about $225,000.” He said many of the fields his group rents were worth it at the lower cost, but noted many are not in good enough condition to merit the increased rental fees. “If the school board would actually look after its grass fields, they would actually be worth something to people,” he said. “We’re looking at some private facilities now that used to seem expensive but no longer do.” Fortunately for the club, it has a separate deal with Northern Secondary School. The NTSC uses the school’s newly renovated Clarke Pulford Field and will not be subjected to increased fees there after helping to foot the bill for the field’s high-profile renovation. “We have a 12-year contract there,” he said. “We fronted them $270,000 to help complete the project and in return we get the field three evenings a week.” D ow n i n St . Ja m e s Tow n , Community Matters Toronto’s swimming programs appeared to be in danger until a decision to raise the fees on school pools was put on hold. “The aquatics working group managed to lobby to keep them at the same rates,” said Chris Hallett of Community Matters. “At the end of the day, any increase to use the pool would have had to come out of increased fees because our funders have a set formula.” In an area such as St. James Town, where many families are struggling to make ends meet, that could have posed serious challenges. Those taking part in the swimming program are charged only nominal fees, with a means test in place to ensure even those who cannot afford to pay are not shut out. – Justin Skinner

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Community Fall Fair WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Manor Road United Church, 240 Manor Rd. E. CONTACT: E. Macdonald, 416-483-0695, www.manorroadunitedchurch.com Fair includes jewelry, bake table, China, crystal, cheese table, linens, book table, plants, crafts, household items, silent auction, Church Cafe, face painting and haunted house.

Road Sweeping Operation Toronto District Transportation Services is getting ready to perform sweeping operations on the streets ofToronto this fall.The purpose of the sweeping is to collect leaves that fall, naturally, onto the street. All streets will be swept on two occasions.The operation will continue until November 30, 2012.The map shows the area where the sweeping operation will take place. Please do not rake leaves onto the roadway or sidewalks from your property. Raking leaves onto the roadway is a by-law offence and could result in charges being laid. In addition, raking, blowing, placing or dumping leaves onto City property (sidewalk, roadway, catch basins, etc.,) can create dangerous conditions, cause flooding on the roadways or on property or cause accidents. Here’s how to put leaves out for collection: Use reusable containers (any rigid open-top container such as a garbage can, bushel basket, green plastic yard waste bin – no lids) or kraft paper yard waste bags. Put leaves at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your scheduled yard waste collection day. Check your collection calendar for your yard waste collection schedule and more helpful hints. Sorry, no plastic bags:The City does not collect leaves and yard waste in clear plastic bags or Halloween-themed plastic bags. (If you use these decorative bags, please empty the contents into one of the approved containers listed above before placing out for collection). Ways to reduce the amount of leaves you put at the curb for collection: Feed leaves to your backyard composter now, plus stockpile leaves to add as dry material during the winter. Here’s what the City collects as yard waste: Leaves, plant/tree trimmings,weeds and brush. Branches measuring less than three inches or 7.5 cm in diameter should be tied in bundles no longer than 4 feet or 1.2 min length and 2 feet or 0.6 m in diameter. Pumpkins and waste fruit from trees in your yard are also accepted. Sorry, we can’t accept: Soil, sod, grass clippings, logs or tree stumps. For more information on yard waste, please call 311 or visit us at www.toronto.ca/compost/yardwaste.htm If you have any questions about the service, call 311 Briar Hill Ave Broadway Ave

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Toronto Chamber Choir WHEN: 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Mark Vuorinen, 416-763-1695 The Toronto Chamber Choir’s season begins with music from the extensive collection of the 16th-century copyist Pierre Alamire.

WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-2350843 The group will be discussing the novel “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje. Light refreshments.

n Friday, Nov. 2

Messy Church-An All Ages Event WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Manor Road United Church, 240 Manor Rd. E. CONTACT: E. Macdonald, 416-483-0695, www. manorroadunitedchurch.com, COST: Donations welcome Kids (accompanied by a guardian) are invited the first Tuesday of every month beginning for games, crafts, storytelling, a brief interactive worship period and a communal supper.

North Toronto Group of Artists WHEN: 6 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Blessed Sacrament Church, 24 Cheritan Ave. CONTACT: Sharon Erlichman, sharon88@rogers.com COST: Free The North Toronto Group of Artists (NTGA) announces its annual Fall Fine Arts Show gala today; show Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free admission.

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A Benefit for Common Thread Chorus WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: St. Simon’s Anglican Church, 525 Bloor St. E. CONTACT: Shazia Islam, 416-410-5022, www.commonthreadchorus. ca COST: Adults $25, seniors/students/unwaged $15 A musical tribute to Phil Ochs hosted by Sonny Ochs with the event’s proceeds going to Common Thread Community Chorus of Toronto.

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‘We cannot fit in everything we want to do here.’ ~ Tarragon Theatre GM Gideon Arthurs manager of Theatre Direct at Artscape Wychwood Barns, said while having a space that’s accessible to the neighbourhood is great, some internal tweaks would make it better. “Sometimes you build a space of your dreams and then realize it’s not working for you,” she said. Soundproofing – or lack thereof – is an issue, along with moving offices into studios, which takes up space. ‘RENT THE PUBLIC SIDE’ “Now we need to build a temporary wall so we can rent the public side of the space,” Brown said. There also isn’t an internal communication system set up for the site, so often the organizations housed at Wychwood Barns have no idea what the others are

doing, she said. “It’s really hard when things are happening and we don’t know,” Brown said. Library and after-hours school space would be ideal for prep work and productions, but the high cost of hiring security makes it unaffordable for community groups, Arthurs said. ‘TRAGEDY OF OUR TIMES’ “They just sit empty at night and it’s a tragedy of our times,” Mihevc said. While there are no set plans for expansion, Terragon Theatre is looking at options, Arthurs said in an interview. “We might fill in the courtyard area, expand the lobby area,” he said. “We cannot fit in everything we want to do here.” With 4,000 annual subscribers and 11 productions from September to May, the theatre draws audiences from the neighbourhood as well as surrounding communities, he said. Those who didn’t attend the meeting but wish to comment can visit www.toronto. ca/culture/cultural-spaces. htm

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