‘There’s no replacing it’: What Ontario Science Centre meant to community
Global News
Many decried the loss of a beloved institution Sunday after the Ontario Science Centre abruptly and permanently shut its doors last week amid structural concerns.
Families and community members decried the loss of a beloved institution Sunday after the Ontario Science Centre abruptly and permanently shut its doors last week amid concerns over the state of its roof.
The provincial government already had plans to move the 55-year-old science centre from its current location to Ontario Place when it announced the sudden closure on Friday — a move it said was meant to protect the health and safety of visitors and staff.
The province said it received an engineering report this week that found a number of roof panels “in a distressed, high-risk condition” that could fail under the weight of snow this winter.
A crowd of parents, children, educators and other community members gathered in a west Toronto park Sunday to call on the province to restore the centre in its current location instead.
Children blew whistles and hoisted homemade signs declaring their love for the facility as the crowd chanted “Save our science centre.”
Katarina Gligorijevic and Colin Geddes had planned to take their son Sasha to the centre on Friday but had an unexpected scheduling conflict, meaning the eight-year-old wasn’t able to visit one last time before it closed.
The science centre was “one of the important cornerstones of our schedule” for Sasha, who is homeschooled and loved to spend hours looking at the frog section, his parents said.
“The abruptness of the closure felt extremely unnecessary and cruel,” Gligorijevic said.
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