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Consultant axed, WMC security in the works for 2014 budget STEVE KANNON A department with no major changes in the offing – Woolwich recently went through a spate of recreation spending – there’s no need to drop $60,000 to plot a course for the next five years, councillors decided last week. The proposed spending for a consultant was axed from the $4.3-million recreation and facilities budget. Some of the savings from dropping the recreation master plan are likely to be channelled into a security system at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, where vandalism January 1 caused $100,000 in damage. Coun. Mark Bauman, noting he’s always wary of spending money on consultants, led the charge on eliminating the rec. master plan, saying he would not support the department’s budget with that item in place. He suggested the money would be better spent on something tangible like, say, a soccer field. “I’d rather spend it on grass on the ground, rather than a paper study.” Some 80 per cent of the money BUDGET | 2
Young Elmira rockers revel in competition win
Stained Glass Army now gets chance to showcase their music to a much wider audience
Stained Glass Army bandmates Trevor Bowman (bass), Mitchell McCloy (guitar), Kyle Wilton (vocals) and Carter Leis (drums) steamrolled the competition in a series of Toronto shows at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club. Last weekend, a win earned them prizes that includes recording time in a Quebec studio. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
ELENA MAYSTRUK A still-unexplained invite to take part in a competition in Toronto has netted Elmira band Stained Glass Army a chance to showcase their music to a wider audience. The bandmates – lead singer Kyle Wilton, bassist Trevor Bowman, drummer Carter Leis and guitarist Mitchell McCloy – ended up winning the Landmark Events competition held last weekend at Toronto’s Mod Club. Stained Glass Army (SGA) couldn’t believe their luck when
an invitation of a lifetime came out of the blue late last summer. “Oh, it was a huge deal. We were contacted late summer, the guy asked us to play in this preliminary round at the Mod Club and we made it past that and we played again on the weekend and we won. It was a big deal,” said Wilton. A win against several Ontario bands and artists after several competitions culminated in last weekend’s show and dropped global distribution, a non-exclusive licensing contract and publicity campaign into the band’s lap.
SGA will travel to Quebec in the spring for a showcase concert, sending their material and press kit to a major or indie record label of choice. In addition, the boys will rub shoulders with Glen Robinson – a producer/engineer who’s worked with a long list of artists, from Keith Richards to the Beach Boys, The Ramones to Dave Grohl – during 36 hours of recording time. Though the schoolmates have played a number of shows around Waterloo Region – appearing regularly at the Central Tavern in Elmira – the competition offered
the first chance to play in Toronto. Now, they’ll be travelling farther still. “We played a few shows, a few competitions, but none like that, never in Toronto either," said McCloy. Landmark Events is an artist development organization that runs shows for emerging talent in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Kingston and Toronto with the goal of helping emerging artists of all creeds make it to the charts. How the band got invited is BAND | 2