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Salvation Army still serving community
thurs sept 13, 2012
GREAT BALL OF FIRE
TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com The Salvation Army Etobicoke Temple may look like Roman ruins. But the Christian charity and church remains open for business. In fact, the temple is further deepening its community conscience with the construction of a nearly $6 million facility to better serve the north Etobicoke community. The future 22,000-square-foot building at its existing 2152 Kipling Ave. address will include: a desperately needed, large, communityaccessible gymnasium, classroom, meeting rooms, as well as a moreprivate food bank, sanctuary and fellowship hall. The gymnasium will be offered to community groups free-of-charge, Major Kathryn Trim said in an interview last Friday. “We very much have a community vision for the building. It won’t just serve the congregation. We plan to serve the community. Our dream, our vision is to have teenagers use the gymnasium for structured programming. We won’t charge them for it.” Trim and her husband, Major Kester Trim, took over leadership of the Salvation Army Temple in Rexdale in July. The couple had spent five years in regional leadership of the Salvation Army in Quebec. For the next year, the temple’s corps office and family services will operate out of a nearby office at 24 >>>CAMPAIGN, page 10
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FUN FAIR: Tonka blows fire during the Franklin Horner Community Centre's Fun Fair on Saturday. Visitors enjoyed music, food, entertainment and crafts. See more photos from the fun fair on page 3.
Packed Humbertown meeting gets heated CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Tempers flared at Martingrove Collegiate Tuesday night, as nearly 300 of the more than 1,000 resi-
dents who showed up at a heated Humbertown Plaza redevelopment meeting were turned away due to overcrowding. Police were on scene to direct traffic as cars spilled from the packed
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parking lot to line surrounding side streets, while security guards inside the school struggled to prevent the hundreds of overflow attendees from attempting to squeeze into the standing-room-only auditorium,
which was filled well beyond its 740-seat capacity. Inside the auditorium, shouted rebukes became the norm at the extended, three-hour meeting >>>NEW, page 28
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