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WINNIPEG
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Name atop street won’t be cheap: Draft bylaw
Sylvia. Steps down
Bylaw offers option to honour ‘noteworthy persons’ without changing street names
Sylvia Kuzyk at the CTV studios in downtown Winnipeg. JAMES TURNER/METRO
Winnipeg’s popular anchor to leave CTV Sylvia Kuzyk, arguably one of Winnipeg’s most recognizable faces, is stepping down from her role as weather specialist and anchor for CTV News Winnipeg in the fall. Kuzyk spent 38 years on the air with the local station, garnering numerous awards. See the full story at metronews.ca/winnipeg.
Winnipeggers wanting to pay tribute to fellow citizens through the renaming of streets may soon have a new way to do it without a mess of red tape — but they will have to open their wallets. City employees will table the results of a draft street-naming bylaw Thursday to politicians on the planning, property and development committee. They are that proposing people and groups wishing to honour citizens by placing names on distinct signs atop existing street-name signs on a temporary basis (for a maximum of two years) should pay a $150 application fee and a $200 per-sign installation fee. The applicant would also be on the hook for the cost to have the
signs manufactured. Administrators call the plan “a third option” for people and groups to commemorate aspects of Winnipeg, including notable people, historical features and cultural events. A sign-topper would be gifted to either the person who paid for it or handed over to the mayor’s office when its display time runs out. The review of current streetnaming rules was prompted by a lack of a single standard for how requests from residents, politicians and advocacy groups were handled. Administrators are also recommending council approve an application fee of $150 to add a street name to the city’s list of reserved street names. JAMES TURNER