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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 12, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 47
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Kamloops man among two killed in boating crash
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City will work with pro-arts centre group
A BOY AND HIS HOURSE, OF COURSE
The Lower North Thompson 4H Club held a fundraising event at the Westsyde Shopping Centre on Saturday, which included participation by three-year-old Victor Dichrow and a pony named Dixie. GORDON GORE/KTW READER
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Kamloops council has directed city administration to support the formation of a not-for-profit community society, essentially made up of potential users, that will organize community support and potential fundraising for a proposed performing-arts centre. Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian told KTW the group will come before council next week. “I’ve said before, I feel that this is something that is missing within the menu of things we offer the citizens of Kamloops,” Christian said, falling of short of saying council has officially supported the performing-arts centre vision as presented by Ron Fawcett earlier this year. “That’s my personal opinion. But until we have a proposal before us, then you’ll have an all in favour, seven-two, eight-one, nine-nothing kind of outcome, right?” Despite early days, the approach is markedly different from the previous performing-arts-centre pitch. Christian said the city is looking at best practices in communities small and large across the country, following the failed referendum of 2015.
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In Calgary, a performing-arts facility called Arts Commons was built for $102 million under a registered charity, including a mix of government funding from all levels and private-sector money. On Tuesday, City of Kamloops community and protective services director Byron McCorkell called a donation pledged by the Fawcett family in Kamloops toward the initiative “very generous.” Asked if this approach takes the financial burden off taxpayers’ backs, Christian said: “I think that we asked the taxpayers and they said they weren’t prepared to support the last proposal, so this proposal has to be different than that. “So what kind of contribution that the city would make to this at this point in time is premature and I think you’re looking at two elements of that. One is the capital cost, which is about $20 million less than the last one, rounding it out, and the other is the operating cost, who is going to run it and that kind of thing.” The city’s Community Services Committee will be responsible for liaising with the arts centre community society and for identifying the city’s next steps in advancing the proposal.
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