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Tuesday September 10, 2013
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Lights in the night Visitors watch Afro-funk-soulfusion-dance band Coco Jafro perfrom at the secondannual Luminary Festival on Sept. 7 at North Delta’s Sunstone Park. The event featured live enterainment, crafts, lighted displays and a luminary (lantern) parade. For more photos from the event, see page 15. BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER
SkyTrain public art gets second look TransLink to review spending on installations for Surrey Central, other stations by Jeff Nagel TRANSLINK IS reviewing its practice of spending
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significant sums of money on public art to beautify SkyTrain stations after criticism of its priorities. Board chair Nancy Olewiler defends the concept of paying to put art along parts of the transit system, but says the policy for selecting works and the amounts to be spent is being reconsidered. TransLink has so far approved spending
$615,000 for three public art installations at Metrotown, Commercial-Broadway, and Main Street-Science World as part of Expo Line SkyTrain station upgrades. The transportation authority is also expected to consider art installations for Surrey Central and Joyce-Collingwood stations. “We’re very mindful of the need to pinch every penny,” Olewiler said, adding it’s too soon yet to say if the art pieces already commissioned
are too costly or not. “I’m totally in favour of the concept,” she said, adding she’d incorporate gardens as well if it were up to her. “As we urbanize we want public spaces to be welcoming and accommodating. People want to see that their city isn’t just turned into giant blocks of concrete.”
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