Our new Community Centre had a opening ceremony and celebration day yesterday and the facilities are open on Monday. The hockey rink remained while the rest of the building was demolished and rebuilt to today’s standards and types of facilities for a wider set of uses. Its name used to be the Peach King Centre, and now with the addition of a sponsor it is MRPKC - Major Refrigeration Peach King Centre - I’m proposing we call it Mr. Pik. Other proposed names include “the Fridge.” Probably will remain the Peach King Centre to the public. Like the Skydome, I expect.
The area that will be under intense discussion is the “upgraded” dressing rooms. What I saw was one big room with a number of small rooms all around it and low lockers in the centre. The small rooms were specific: change rooms, shower rooms, and washrooms/toilets. The reason for the approach is being more inclusive.
The reason for the lockers to be low is to have a “line of sight” for safety. That’s disconcerting for half of the population, don’t you think?
I had already heard disparaging remarks about this approach. Checking out the reviews of this kind of set-up proves very interesting. There are Reddit threads with experiences from Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium and other countries.
I expect this will be a conversation for a long time with no renovations to come. This appears to be the trend in locker rooms. Unlike the Shaw Festival when it built the new theatre in 1973 and failed to account for the large proportion of women in the audience. The washrooms had to be enlarged within a few years.
I’ll be at MPK on Monday. That does depend on the weather which is just about to strike. Is it freezing rain followed by snow, or snow followed by freezing rain?
Here’s a perfect picture for today - the Canadian flag bravely flying in a snow storm, at Charles Daley Park on Lake Ontario. Good metaphor.
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