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Friday, April 20, 2012
A few dollars more for E&N rail repairs Corridor foundation needs $5.4M for bridges, trestles Metchosin painter Frank Mitchell sketches an outline of an oil painting with oil sticks at Albert Head Lagoon, a location where Emily Carr once painted.
Kyle Wells News staff
With the $15 million in place for repairing rail ties and relaunching a train service, attention is now being turned to the 48 bridges and trestles along the E&N rail route between Victoria and Courtenay. Island Corridor Foundation (ICF), needs another $5.4 million for the necessary upgrades to bridges and trestles to make the rail line usable for at least 10 years, according to an engineering analysis released this week. ICF chief operating officer Graham Bruce admits he has his work cut out for him, but said is confident that they will be able to find the money. “(We’re) not going to let this go,” Bruce said. “We’ll find (the money) somehow, somewhere, through a number of avenues.” To raise the initial $5.4 million, Bruce plans to approach a number of organizations including the Island Coastal Economic Trust. Beyond that, he was hesitant to give other names while the application process is still underway. Work needed on bridges and trestles involves new decking and some structural work. Near Goldstream park, the iconic Niagara Canyon bridge and Arbutus Canyon bridge, both from 1912, require hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs. This is still a better outcome then anyone predicted. PLEASE SEE: Repairs, Page A4
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Following the footsteps of Emily Painters hit scenic locales of Victoria’s most iconic artist Charla Huber News staff
Painters are spending the next few months following in Emily’s footsteps through the West Shore. Emily Carr that is. The West Shore Arts Council and Coast Collective gallery have joined forces to encourage artists to paint in locations across the region where Emily Carr created her art from the 1920s to the 1940s. Elaine Limbrick, of the West
Shore Arts Council, created Emily Carr, a guide to artistic & literary sites on the West Shore. The guide has a map of the 21 outdoor locations where Carr worked, based on Limbrick’s research. “It’s wonderful to get people out to where Emily painted,” Limbrick said at Albert Head Lagoon in Metchosin. “Even people on the West Shore don’t know about all these wonderful beaches.” The Coast Collective is calling all interested artists to join the project of creating a collection of art from the Carr locations, painted between April 1 to Oct. 25. Marcela Strasdas, a director at Coast Collective, said they are working on creating a calen-
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dar of dates for each location so artists can meet and paint or create together. Artists can also go solo. At the end of October, the Coast Collective will accept art for an exhibit at West Shore Parks and Recreation. The top three paintings will earn the artists cash prices of $300, $200 and $100. Metchosin resident Frank Mitchell, a member of en plein air painting group Al Fresco, is excited to participate in the event. With oil sticks in hand, Mitchell begins to sketch out a scene at Albert Head Lagoon. Throughout the next few months Mitchell hopes to paint at each one of the locations on Limbrick’s map.
One location Mitchell and several other artists are leery about it Leechtown in Sooke. It is at the end of the Galloping Goose trail and then the artist must hike in. “Some places you don’t know exactly where she was,” Mitchell said. While Mitchell’s art won’t emulate the style of Carr, he has appreciation for her work. “She did her own thing from the start, she did the First Nations stuff which wasn’t what people did back then,” he said. Limbrick is pleased to see many of the landscapes Carr captured in her paintings haven’t changed much over the years. PLEASE SEE: Carr, Page A7
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