Edmonton Notes for 8/29/2009

Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:

• I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise: the City’s decision to close the City Centre Airport is going to end up in court. I’ll have more on this later.
• Sharon has a great list of ten things to do in Edmonton before summer’s out! Make the most of it.
• The Edmonton Public Library is holding a Back to School Book Sale today through Tuesday.
• At least 240 trees on City land were destroyed in last month’s big storm, and the total clean up fee came to $1.5 million.
• The Pride Centre of Edmonton received $24,000 from City Council on Monday to help it operate over the next two years while it looks for funding.
• Transit riders taken note: fall service changes go into effect tomorrow for Edmonton Transit and St. Albert Transit, and on Monday for Strathcona Country Transit.
• Speaking of transit, it seems that there may be a temporary parking lot near the new Century Park LRT station when it opens.
• Daryl Katz is expected to announce an ambitious $1 billion downtown redevelopment project in the next couple of weeks, the core of which is a new arena for the Edmonton Oilers. Andy has some good commentary and links.
• An Edmonton playground is the first in Canada to have LED digital features. Because you know, kids don’t have enough electronic toys at home.
• Here’s the latest Edmonton Next Gen weekly newsletter.
• Edmonton Stories now has leaderboards up on the website! Remember to vote for your favorite stories.
• Scott McKeen wrote about dEdmonton this week! Nice to see the festival get some early press. He also wrote an odd piece about Councillor’s Executive Assistants.
• Twestival Local 2009 is taking place in Edmonton on September 10th at Original Joe’s on 109th Street. Stay tuned here for more information.
• HIV Edmonton is hosting the Scotiabank AIDS Walk For Life on September 20th. I’ll be walking again this year! If you’d like to sponsor me, you can do so here. Thanks!