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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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Master plan for parks in the making People asked to submit ideas in a survey as part of planning process Craig Spence the chronicle
The fitness centre at Frank Jameson Community Centre is busy. The treadmills and stationary bikes are whirring; the weights clanking; like most fitness centers, there’s an air of intensity about the place, of people going about serious business. As one of the most used facilities under the jurisdiction of Ladysmith’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Department, it will no doubt figure prominently in a Parks and Rec Master Plan that is currently being prepared by the Town of Ladysmith. So Ladysmith’s Director of Parks, Recreation & Culture Clayton Postings is hoping the fitness aficionados pumping and hoisting through their Workers began dismantling the old firehall in Chemainus last week, and many people are sad to see two of Chemainus’s original reps will take a break and respond to the town’s murals – Steam Train On Bridge Over Chemainus River, by Paul Marcano, and Fallers Undercutting A Fir, by Thomas Robertson – go PR&C Survey. The detailed questionnaire, which can be filled down with the building. Both the murals were painted in 1982. Ian Spence out at ladysmith.ca, or picked up in paper format at the municipal hall on the Esplanade or at Frank Jameson Community Centre at 810 Sixth Avenue, will provide Clayton and his team with first year of the Festival of Murals project were on walls slated for demolition. a wealth of information… if people take the Craig Spence – the murals have been victims of a latter Bellamy said consideration was given time to share their ideas. the chronicle “Get involved,” says a promotional slip on the day version of the kind of progress they to moving the murals, but in the end FJCC front desk. “A new Parks, Recreation and Visitors to Chemainus, doing the fa- depicted. The walls of Chemainus’s old that proved impractical. “It’s a really tough job,” she said. “You Culture master plan is underway, and you have mous mural tour, maps in hand, will be fire hall, which they were painted on, are can cut a wall up and then you’ve got an opportunity for input into the future of prodisappointed to discover a couple of being prepared for demolition. gaps in the lineup where murals num- “The good thing is we have high reso- a segmented mural, but then where do grams, services, events, parks and trails.” In fact, if you haven’t thought much about reclution photographs of those murals, you put it?” ber three and five used to be. As for repainting the murals in new reation and cultural opportunities in the town, Missing will be Paul Marcano’s depic- and they are in our mural book, and on tion of Engine 104 chuffing over the our web site,” said Shannon Bellamy, locations, that’s possible, but a deci- taking the survey will be a great way for you to Chemainus River on a log bridge; and vice president of the Festival of Murals sion would have to be made based on give the matter a little thought, and to gain some the priorities of the Festival of Murals perspective on just how well endowed with Thomas Robertson’s two fallers on Society. PR&C opportunities Ladysmith is. This is the first time the FOM has had Society. spring boards undercutting a fir tree. Both originally painted in 1982 – the to deal with a situation where murals See Master Plan, Page 4 See Murals, Page 5
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