Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:
- Did you know the Edmonton Folk Music Festival was on? It’s hard to miss 🙂 You can get the latest at Twitter. The big story this week was that EFMF didn’t receive any federal funding, though both Calgary and Winnipeg did.
- Adam wrote a great post this week called Edmonton’s problem. It’s definitely worth a read, and don’t miss the comments either.
- ENTS continues to get some good press: they were featured in Vue Weekly on Thursday.
- Edmonton is up against London, ON and Halifax, NS for the national Communities in Bloom competition. The judges visited this week. Our city last won in 1997 and 2000.
- Edmonton Transit is upgrading the LRT signal system this weekend, so service is slightly disrupted.
- Here’s the latest Next Gen Weekly newsletter.
- More than 52,800 kg of food and about $97,000 was collected for the Edmonton Food Bank at this year’s Heritage Festival.
- The Clover Bar landfill, which has operated 20 years longer than anticipated, will stop accepting trash by August 17th. Currently about 60% of Edmonton’s garbage is recycled or composted, and that figure is expected to grow to more than 90% when a new gasification plant opens next year.
- Apparently Bob Barker is coming to Edmonton next month to fight for Lucy the elephant’s release.
- The Fringe starts on Thursday!
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