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Art for the solstice
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Detail shows the cutouts and colours of a paper lantern as its being made by young artist Holdyn Krause, 8, at Two Rivers Gallery on Sunday. Children and adults enjoyed family time together making paper lanterns to help celebrate the Winter Solstice.
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Snow removal budget nearly empty Couple more big dumps before New Year’s Day will have council scrambling DELYNDA PILON newsroom@pgfreepress.com
The city’s snow removal budget has about $600,000 left in it, enough for another two significant snow falls. Mayor Shari Green said she hopes the $600,000 left in the snow removal budget will last until the end of 2012 so the city
won’t have to dip into the general reserve fund to cover the difference. “I think we’ll be okay until the end of the year,” she said. but one more huge one or two big ones but we’re looking at exhausting all the funds we have.” Green added council will be taking a significant look at roads in 2013 during upcoming budget meetings.
“As the snow melts we’re going to be wondering what our road and pothole situation is like,” Green said. “ We will be finding some increases for roads that we did not do last year.” Green explained that last year council took money from a fund that wasn’t being accessed and moved significant amount of money over into the road repair budget,
allowing the city to complete a lot of work that wasn’t funded in the original plan. However, it is important to find a sustainable fund for continual road repair. “I think council is in a better state of being informed in respect as to what we should do as to roads,” Green said. She added that plan will be sound and financed.