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The secondary performance space at Young People’s Theatre on Toronto’s downtown Front Street is often used instead for drama workshops, development readings or even painting sets, while most of its staff work in rented space across the street.
So, with the help of donors tapped over the past two years and with hopes of attracting government funding and public help to finish the job the theatre has embarked on a major expansion project.
The company took ownership of that building across the street, 161 Frederick St., late last year and hopes to start renovating its current theatre this summer to have it ready for whenever live performances are able to return.
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Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up the price.
Updated on Jan 01, 2021;
Published on Dec 31, 2020
The 400 residents of Wheeler, Oregon, where muddy logging runoff filled the town’s reservoirs. (Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian) Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that logging had devastated a creek that provided part of the town’s drinking water supply.
A timber company had clear-cut thousands of trees along the creek, leaving only a thin strip standing between the town’s drinking water and recently flattened land strewned with debris. A single row of trees was left on either side to protect it from mud, herbicides and summer sun. After many of those trees were bowled over by wind, the creek flow dropped so
Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price. ProPublica 1/1/2021 by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive
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On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that logging had devastated a creek that provided part of the town’s drinking water supply.