Happy holidays people! Stop reading blogs for a few days, turn your pc off, and go spend more time with real people.. go on.. (I’ll try and do the same!)
I also received this picture below from Coxsoft Art News. It’s a Banksy called “Dove of Peace”.
I would be wearing a bullet proof vest too if I was a dove of peace in this day and age.
I really can’t believe that the end of the year is here already, but I can’t argue with the calendar. I think the earth might be spinning faster each year as the years seem to keep getting quicker!
Anyway, this is the time of the year that the media tries to sum up what has happened in the past 12 months. Rather than putting my own list together, I have put a list of lists together. Most are art lists, but some have very little to do with art.. (more…)
An Ottawa-area referee suffering post-traumatic stress is suing a minor hockey player and coach after a fight in January ended with a linesman being punched out.
Chris Currie, 23, was the referee Jan. 14 in a major-midget game between North Dundas and North Glengarry-Stormont at the Winchester arena.
With about eight minutes left in the game, a fight broke out. One linesman, Kyle Dearing, received a broken jaw after allegedly being blindsided while trying to break up the scuffle.
Police charged two teenage players with assault causing bodily harm. They can’t be identified under young offender laws. (more…)
A west-end councillor says the city is reverting back to its old ways of treating rural residents like second-class citizens.
West Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry said he’s furious city staff are considering adding a transit tax onto the property tax bill of rural residents who don’t receive or use the service.
El-Chantiry said rural councillors were blindsided by the recommendation, which was made public while many residents and councillors were on March Break. (more…)
The curtain hasn’t fallen yet on a new downtown concert hall.
The corporate services and economic development committee has recommended the city reserve its $6-million contribution for the $33-million project so that the Ottawa Chamber Music Society and other interested parties can again try to come up with a plan to fund a hall.
The chamber society has been the frontrunner to build a concert hall on Elgin St., but city manager Kent Kirkpatrick told the committee at least one private and two public organizations have expressed interest in pursuing the opportunity.
Naomi Ridout is spearheading the newly formed Friends of the Concert Hall and wants an acoustically perfect music hall because another multi-purpose centre won’t deliver the sound of a professional venue.
“We want a place for good sound,” she said, and acknowledged that some of the rumours about possible interested parties include Capital Tickets.
HOLD ONTO MONEY
Chamber society chairman Colin Cooke was pleased the committee is recommending city council hold onto the money while the concert hall issue gets sorted out. Committee members didn’t attach a timeline to how long the city should hold on to its contribution but Cooke said it gives new life to the project.
Even if the chamber society doesn’t lead in the construction of a hall, Cooke supports any plan to build the facility.
“What we want to see is a concert hall for the city’s arts community,” said Cooke. “We can’t wait to see it take shape and this buys us a little more time to come up with a different path to the same goal. Anything close to this idea is absolutely fabulous.”
The deadline for the chamber society to raise the $33 million for the 900-seat concert hall expired at the end of February. Up to that point, it had secured about $26 million including the city’s contribution, another $6 million from the province, up to $10 million from the feds and about $4 million from fundraising and other contributions.
By DEREK PUDDICOMBE
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