{"id":1682,"date":"2007-04-02T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:11:45","slug":"the-beaches-know-how-to-deal-with-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/02\/the-beaches-know-how-to-deal-with-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Beaches deal with graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/110\/266130867_23ce778a90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last summer I worked down at Leuty Station in the Beaches. One morning I showed up for work and noticed that someone had tagged the historical lifeguard station with an inappropriate choice of words. Within a few hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centre55.com\/index.htm\">Community 55<\/a> was all over it with buckets of water and cleaning products.<\/p>\n<p>Our staff was under the impression these kids were locals who&#8217;d gotten in trouble recently and were paying their dues in community service, but as it turns out this was their summer job.<\/p>\n<p>Community 55 is located at 97 Main Street, and covers  the area of Coxwell to Victoria Park and from Danforth down to the water. They receive a grant every summer from the City to hire a small group, usually between four to six teenagers, to clean up graffiti tags in the area. Cameron Boyle, who works at Community 55, says the program has been running for 12 summers.<\/p>\n<p>The program is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centre55.com\/programs_grip.htm\">Graffiti Removal and Information Program<\/a>, or GRIP, and last summer the group of four teenagers covered a total of 8,200 square feet of graffiti. Cameron says every summer they try to hire teenagers who&#8217;ve gotten into trouble previously for tagging to demonstrate the time and effort required to remove similar handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m all for giving teenagers jobs and keeping them off the streets, except that, according to Lainey Anderson of Community 55, the program removes all graffiti, and doesn&#8217;t make the distinction between artful graffiti and selfish tagging. She says the staff are told to remove any graffiti that wasn&#8217;t authorized by the property owner, regardless of the talent behind it, because the property owner risks receiving a fine from the City for having an illegal mural.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, Beaches store owners could wake up one day to find that someone has painted a beautiful image on the side of their property, but would have to have it removed, regardless of whether they enjoy it or not, or can even afford it.  Lainey says the only option would be to make an application for a permit to showcase the work as public art.<\/p>\n<p>The GRIP program is available to both businesses and private dwellings but isn&#8217;t free.  The cost of removal is donation-based and usually depends on the size of the job, Cameron says, with donations ranging from $5 to $100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I worked down at Leuty Station in the Beaches. One morning I showed up for work and noticed that someone had tagged the historical lifeguard station with an inappropriate choice of words. Within a few hours Community 55 was all over it with buckets of water and cleaning products. 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