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Kanata Kourier-Standard 44 Pages
44th Year, Issue 47 December 2, 2010
Kandahar Post: Students send Christmas cards to soldiers. P13
Donations needed: Food Cupboard shelves bare. P3
Great skate: 100 kids take to Scotiabank Place ice. P11
Beaverbrook site of west district library Kanata Ave. slated to be a main street BLAIR EDWARDS KOURIER-STANDARD
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The new west district library will be built at the site of the Beaverbrook branch at the Mlacak Centre. The project was approved at a meeting of the Ottawa Public Library Board on Nov. 15. City staff will look at design options that will allow for keeping the existing structure either for other uses or as part of the west district library. The proposed 2,787-square-metre building will offer three times the space of the existing Beaverbrook branch. Meetings will be held to invite public comment on the proposed design. In 2009, the city budgeted $10 million to build the west district library on the site of the proposed Kanata Town Centre, but later discovered that construction costs were prohibitive because of the land’s rocky terrain and other development issues.
City staff looked at alternative sites and ranked them, with the Beaverbrook site earning the highest score. Kanata South Coun. Peggy Feltmate, who sits on the library board, said building the district library at the Mlacak Centre ensures the survival of the Beaverbrook branch. “If it had been the Centrum area or the Kanata Centrum Beaverbrook would not have remained open because it was too close together,” she said. “It’s just a perfect spot,” said Kanata South Coun. Feltmate: Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said the city will have to add more than 30 parking spots for the proposed two-building. She said the city could build the west district library near Campeau Drive, or on a section of greenspace behind the Mlacak Centre, which is owned by the Ottawa public school board, or tear down the Beaverbrook branch and build there.
DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN PHOTO
Danny Cooper, a Grade 9 student at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School, desperately paddles his tippy boat at the 16th annual Cardboard Boat Races at the Nepean Sportsplex on Nov. 30. Students were given two hours to design and construct their vessels using only two sheets of cardboard and four rolls of duct tape.
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