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Inside Local ARTS fair plans to grow The Bytowne Ukulele Group gets hundreds of people strumming. – Page 13
COMMUNITY
A group fighting a proposed dump asks Greely residents to help. – Page 30
Gloucester Fair to run 10 days, add headline entertainers Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
News - The Gloucester Fair is growing. The regional fair will move from four days in the last week of May, to 10 days at the end of August. The new, extended version will kick off on Aug. 15 and run until Aug. 24. Harley Bloom, who is on the fair’s board of directors, said the longer run and new dates aren’t the only big additions. “We are very excited with the possibilities,” he said.
NEWS
MONSTER TRUCKS
The city could be home to a park recognizing Nelson Mandela. – Page 34
Festivities will kick off with a monster truck show and a demolition derby. Bloom said there will also be one headliner and other local entertainers on stage throughout the fair. The change in timing and length will mean more planning, but the basic infrastructure has been in place for years, said the fair board’s president, Maurice Lafortune. See AUGUST, page 2
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All that jazz Young musicians belt out a little jazz during an All-Star Jazz Ensemble concert on Feb. 13 at Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School in Barrhaven. For more photos, see page 25.
Bank Street gets ready for new look Busy street expected to make life safer for south Ottawa residents Sabine Gibbins sabine.gibbins@metroland.com
News - The city is looking to turn the southern end of Bank Street into a safer and more community oriented road. Residents will have the opportunity to participate in creating a community design plan for Bank Street from the CN railway corridor south to Queensdale Avenue at a public meeting on Feb. 20. Planner Jillian Savage said the community design plan is a good follow-up to a previous one done for Bank Street north of
Billing’s Bridge to the CN railway tracks. The goal of the plan is to transform this portion of Bank Street in the GloucesterSouthgate Ward from a street heavily used by automobiles into a more pedestrian and cycling-friendly roadway. “It’s one of the first ones we did for an arterial main street, so we are basically completing the process for the street,” she said. The community design plan will set a vision for a more improved and safer corridor, said Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans. “Right now, residents feel as if the street is a barrier to them,” said Deans. “This community design plan is an opportunity to work toward creating a more community-oriented, safe and sustainable neighbourhood. We need to consider the different uses along Bank Street that when combined come together to make Glouces-
ter-Southgate a great place to live, work, and raise a family.” CHALLENGES
The study area is nearly 3.5 kilometres in length, and includes any properties that touch Bank Street as well as properties located between Bank and Sawmill Creek. A few key areas of the plan include the South Keys Shopping Centre, Sawmill Creek, the South Keys and Greenboro transit stations, the large intersection at Bank and Hunt Club Road, an area east of Bank at Hunt Club which currently has industrial zoning, and the Jewish Memorial Gardens cemetery. This project is unique as it is taking a portion of Bank and finding out what some of its characteristics could be, said Savage. See PUBLIC, page 6 R0012549738-0220
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