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TSX offers The future of downtown signal honour to Cranbrook company Cranbrook council will host a workshop to bring together ideas for the City Hall block
SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Cranbrook city council wants to consult with residents about a future vision for the downtown
block containing city hall, the RCMP detachment and the old fire hall. At the Monday, September 9 regular council
meeting, Coun. Bob Whetham put forward a motion that the city host a planning workshop around the future use of the city block between
10th and 11th Avenues, and Baker and 1st Streets. The workshop’s goal will be to identify requirements and seek
Athabasca Nuclear Corp., spin-off of Eagle Plains, invited to ring the bell to open trading day, Sept. 13 B A R RY CO U LT E R
A Cranbrook mining exploration company has been offered a signal honour at the Toronto Stock Exchange this week. Athabasca Nuclear Corp., a spin-off of Eagle Plains Resources, is part of a four-company syndicate that has been invited to ring the bell opening the TSX exchange on Friday, Sept. 13. Chuck Downie of Cranbrook, president and CEO of Athabasca Nuclear Corp., will be in Toronto to take part in the ceremony. Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is the largest stock exchange in Canada, the third largest in North America and the seventh largest in the world by market capitalization. Its trading day always opens and closes with the ceremonial ringing of a bell. Companies of note, individuals and even charities are often invited as an honour to perform the ringing to open the market. The Western Athabasca Syndicate, which includes Athabasca Nuclear, is currently exploring for uranium in the Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan. Athabasca Nuclear (ASC:TSX-V) was “spunoff” from Eagle Plains Resources on a “one-forthree” basis, explained Mike Labach, Director of Investor Relations for Eagle Plains, meaning if shareholders had three shares of Eagle Plains they received one of Athabasca (the company was originally called Yellowjacket when the spin-off occurred). Labach said this practice is a typical business model for Eagle Plains — done to enhance shareholder value and spotlight successes.
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Ryan Granville-Martin, originally from Cranbrook, now living in Toronto, has released a debut album featuring a brooding, dramatic collection of songs and guest appearances by some great Canadian singers and musicians.
A 10-year project takes wing
Ryan Granville-Martin releases debut album “Mouthparts and Wings”
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BARRY COULTER
10-year-project has come to fruition for a musician-producer, originally from Cranbrook, now living in Toronto. Ryan Granville-Martin grew up in Cranbrook, and moved to Toronto in 1995, eventually getting a music degree from the University of Toronto and starting a new life there. He has gained a
reputation as a drummer and producer, and “Mouthparts and Wings,” his debut album, shows he is at the nexus of the Toronto music scene. “Mouthparts and Wings” is a brooding, dramatic collection of songs, written over 10 years. It is thematically connected, but strikingly eclectic. The style of each song stands out on its own — in part because each song fea-
tures a different singer, but also because of Granville-Martin’s diverse production methods and varied instrumentation. He has placed thoughtful horn or string arrangements under some songs (“St. Barnabas,” “Violins”), a cello solo comes looping out of the background to claim our attention, vibes share disc space with overdriven electric guitars.
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public input on future use of city-owned buildings and lands in the vicinity of city hall. Coun. Whetham said the workshop idea occured to him during the debate over the old brick building behind city hall, which was last month spared from demolition for a year while a community group raises funds to restore it. “Really it’s part of a larger issue involving change to this whole city block,” said Coun. Whetham. The block is likely to change in the next 10 years, he explained, as city hall will need to expand soon. Also, the city wants input on what kind of tenant would be appropriate for the old fire hall, which is presently vacant. “So what I am trying to do is to bring all of that together and essentially hold an evening where people can bring forward their ideas; the city will have to identify some of the concerns that it has. “It’s an opportunity for people to get engaged in shaping our downtown. It might not happen right away, it might take a long time, but I think we should begin to establish some goals about where we are going,” said Coun. Whetham. A date for the planning workshop has not yet been set.
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