Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:
- From the Edmonton Journal: a helicopter tour of the Edmonton river valley.
- On Wednesday evening the 2009 Edmonton Urban Design Awards were presented to ten projects that demonstrated a high standard for urban, architectural and landscape design.
- Have you seen the “hope springs eternal” transit map? You’ve got to see this.
- On the topic of transit, Paula wrote another great piece on the debacle that happened at City Council last week.
- In the latest issue of Vue Weekly, a profile of Duchess Bake Shop co-owner Garner Beggs.
- Has a buyer come forward for the Kelly-Ramsey block?
- A couple of new pages launched on the City of Edmonton website this week: 311 Online Services, and Neighbourhoods.
- Also new – the online agenda and minutes system for Council and Committee meetings finally launched. It’s so much better than the old Word document-based system!
- The mascot for the 2010 Grey Cup in Edmonton was unveiled this week. Very cartoonish – what do you think?
- The Christmas Bureau launched its 2009 campaign on Monday. This year’s goal is $1.6 million to provide for 65,000 people.
- Foursquare launched in Edmonton (and a bunch of other cities) this week.
- I recapped three events this week: Leveraging Technical Expertise Locally, Community Evening with Jim Diers, and DemoCampEdmonton9.
- Local software company Smibs Inc. launched a new product called VideoLobby at an exclusive TechCrunch conference on Friday! Only nine other startups were featured, and about 1000 people attended.
- Stuff a Bus is back all next week! Check out ShareEdmonton for locations and times.
- The annual Festival of Trees kicks off on Thursday the Shaw Conference Centre! You can see all dates and times at ShareEdmonton.