Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:
- On Monday evening at 7pm, fusedlogic will be hosting The Great Edmonton Airport Debate. Myself, David MacLean from AEG, and potentially a few others will be on a panel to discuss the City Centre Airport, which you can watch live and participate in online. For a preview, you can watch our five minute segment from Alberta Primetime here.
- The issue goes before Council on Wednesday, July 8th at 1:30pm. I’ll be there. You can find the agenda here.
- The Next Gen Community Challenge is taking place on Wednesday evening at Orange Hall in Strathcona. Details can be found here.
- It’s official: the LRT will be going to NAIT before Gorman. Speaking of transit, summer service changes are now in effect.
- Good news for Edmonton hockey fans (despite the Heatley debacle): Rod Phillips will be back for his 37th consecutive year as the voice of the Oilers.
- Lots of chatter about the Epcor sale this week. The Journal’s headline says it all: Epcor sale ‘a major abuse of power’
- On Saturday, July 11th the Valley Zoo will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an event called On Safari 2009. Eighteen local restaurants and businesses will be offering samplings. Tickets are $50.
- Yesterday was the kickoff for the Edmonton Street Performers Festival. I posted a few photos here.
- Sharon wrote a great guest column at C2E this week called Edmonton’s Dining Passport. Worth a read!
- Also from Sharon: another great list of July events in Edmonton.
- Edmonton’s 2009 census data is now available online. It’s in PDF format, but they’re looking into additional formats such as CSV.
- There’s a relatively new Edmonton blog you should check out: The Edmontonian. They’re also on Twitter here.
- On Tuesday evening ENTS is holding another meeting at the Elephant & Castle downtown. Details here.
