If you build it, the sponsors will come. That was the reasoning behind the approval of a new Rideau Canal footbridge linking the University of Ottawa’s campus to Somerset Street West.
City goes it alone on footbridge
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Month: February 2006
Silly plan prolongs footbridge saga
Like a bad dream from which the city can’t seem to wake up, the sad saga of the Somerset Street footbridge over the Rideau Canal goes on and on.
Community Calendar for February 10, 2006
Feb. 11
The fifth annual Canterbury Stars Return benefit concert will be held at Barrie Alexander Auditorium (Canterbury High School), 900 Canterbury Ave. A fabulous Variety and Visual Art Show featuring Canterbury’s finest alumni, including opera singer Shannon Mercer. All proceeds go to Canterbury Arts Centre Development Association, which raises money to keep Ottawa’s only high school arts specialty program alive. For tickets, go to: www.cacda.com or phone 731-0091.
ARTS BEAT by Tara McCarthy: Canadian music should shine at Junos — not take a back seat
It’s the most musical time of the year — again. With the Grammy statues recently handed out and Juno Awards nominees set to be announced mid-month, the entire North American music industry is celebrating the tops in pop, rock, classical, jazz and country for 2005.