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A broken promise? Burnaby Arts Council has been waiting since 1973 for a new art gallery Stefania Seccia staff reporter
After waiting for a promised new art gallery since 1973, the Burnaby Arts Council wants to take it off its wish-list. On Monday night, the arts council’s Irene McCutcheon, director, and Brian Daniel, vice-president, told city council that a new art gallery would be an economic generator if placed in a better location. “The new facility would make art and culture accessible to all, from the serious collector to the building artist found in every school,” said McCutcheon, who is also an artist. “As a cultural beacon for the community, the art gallery needs to be highly visible, (and an) architecturally distinguished building – well designed, staffed by experienced professionals – with high-level collections, exhibitions and Gallery Page 4
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Fighting for the arts: From left, Burnaby Arts Council vice-president Brian Daniel, director
Irene McCutcheon, and president Bill Thomson want a new gallery for the city’s art collection, which is the third-largest in British Columbia.
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Cemetery construction frustrates neighbours Stefania Seccia staff reporter
The residents near Burnaby’s Ocean View Burial Park are tired of scratching their heads in trying to figure out what the cemetery’s next move is. Gordon Smith, who lives across the street from Ocean View on Arbor Street, expressed his and his neighbours’ frustrations at what he calls a marble wall going up in the community.
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Ocean View is run by Dignity Memorial, which is one of the largest networks of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers in North America. Smith says the cemetery is building three more mausoleums that are 37 feet high, 100 ft. long and 80 ft. wide, which will form a quadrangle. “The effect of this will be a wall of marble-faced concrete at least 180 ft. long in the clear view of anybody who lives near the area or anybody who passes along
Joffre (Avenue),” Smith told city council Monday night. “So far as we know, this proposal has never come before anyone officially, but the planning department has in its possession the drawings for the eastwest building.” Smith said the original paintings made up show that trees would line the site, but they do not exist. “There are grave sites instead,” he added. “To date, Dignity Memorial has made no effort to do anything to contact
us.” Smith said the neighbourhood wants to see the full-site plan. “We’d like to know exactly what they propose to do,” he said. “We do not believe that a multi-national corporation such as Dignity Memorial does not have a long-term plan for development. “And we’d like to see it before they go further.” Cemetery Page 3
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