Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:
- Capital EX kicked off yesterday, with the parade taking place on Thursday. The festival runs until July 26th.
- Macleans published a new list of Canada’s best and worst run cities. Edmonton ranks 18th overall.
- Very interesting read I came across this week – How to fool City Council and the public: Edmonton’s Eaton Centre.
- Patricia Grell is pushing to have residential speed limits lowered. She’s got a blog going, and tells me she’s going to explore using Twitter too! The issue goes before Council in October.
- The Edmonton Public Library has expanded its service hours, made possible by the provinicial funding increase for public libraries announced back in April. EPL is now open 60 hours a week across 16 branches (PDF release).
- Edmonton Transit’s historical tours started up again this week, and run until August 15th. Also on the topic of transit: Plexiglass shields are being installed on buses along problem routes in an effort to improve driver safety.
- The Premier’s annual pancake breakfast will be held on Tuesday, July 21st from 7am to 9am at the Alberta Legislature.
- Taste of Edmonton started yesterday and runs until July 26th. Forty restaurants are participating!
- EdmontonStories.ca is running a Twitter Indy Contest that I’m happy to be judging along with Brittney Le Blanc and Paula Simons. All you’ve gotta do is tweet your Edmonton moment and use the hashtag #yegmoment by July 22nd at 11:59pm. The grand prize is a lap around the track with an Indy Racing League licensed driver! The Indy itself runs July 24-26.
- Coming up next week: a 12 ward system in Edmonton.