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Local Federal campaign begins before PM Trudeaus election call IrTHtVlKST lli rjld itHhiuLliPnmi Mm c 111 ih poll Hit 11 Li iwr i mul i leitn tit i ISSl JS will i subsian isui hi Mid 1 now with loader where he says it II hi n privati industry Also me are strong on public owner ship industry We are being middle road he said As was shown recently In Fxxm the national oil I sent interests the inunirj In dials on rfO govern men gmcrnmem and BUSINESS DIRECTOR KENNEDY ART SHOW Johnlrulie shown a piece of art done to his Sarah and Blake at kindergarten art show at Kennedy Public School last week The I j was converted into an art and Ihe kindergarten student were show their talents to their parents and students Herald photo Local arts group gets outside help Herald staff writer Local advocates of a centre in Hills have turned to a Burlington group who have succeeded in having such a facility built for some pointers on how it is done Getting a cultural centre built requires people who will slick their necks out and who will remain committed to the project until he building finished That is the assessment of Belly Dawson who was on first board of directors of the Burlington Cultural Centres and was involved with the project almost from the begin Mrs Dawson was address ing people interested in getting a cultural centre built in Ion Hills at the request of Credit Valley Artisans As artisans president Grelchen Day put it We fell It was time to talk to somebody who had been where we re going Mrs Dawson was involved with the Burlington Cultunl Centre from very early stages of feasibility study which in their was an on again off again project that lasted about seven years The original group behind the centre in Burlington were arts crafts people but it exp anded to include photograph weavers sculptors and rug hookers The first recommendation to council suggested a building with a price tag of which council requested be reduced to When this was accomplished council threw proposal out Mrs Dawson said Fallowing that setback the arts groups banded together and formed a Arts Burlington and they held an arts show called Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope was an helming success with art participating in show and over people In alien dance Mrs Dawson sold Ihc success show which is now an annual event in Burt proved that there was support in the community far The group working on the next slage of the feaslbllliy study decided to look into schools and talk to gallery Award presented Denny W C Andrews of Ac ion was presented with the Star of Courage in Ottawa Friday by Canada new gov general Edward Schroy Mr Andrews who has res id Actonfor is a native of Newfoundland where on Dec 1977 he saved two cousins from drown ing when they fell through thin Ice while skating near their The decoration ceremony was held in the ballroom of Government House starting a I 11 a m In total the nor general presented one Cross of Valour nine Stars of Courage and IS Medals of Bravery owners Other groups invoked in project at thai time wire garden club and society The Joseph Brant museum was also invol ved in the early stages but liter pulled out If you re going to go big you have to have Ihe people behind you Mrs Dawson You can just have the people Involved in crafts My would be to bring all groups under one umbrella she continued You should have everybody in Hills Arts with every group having represent ion on it 1973 IJil city paid half of the fee for the architect conduct a feasibility study Mrs Dawson said But as began to get higher and the project began to expand some of the groups involved began to gel nervous about the You have to have a group of people who will sink their necks out and who will be committed to the project for tin duration she said The museum and litllc theatre group both became afraid of the dollars and pulled out We figured later thai we should have had Involved at an earlier stage to make them more enthusiastic about In a plu other galliry the ond floor but decorative staircase to the second floor was such that most pieces I be carried up on the staircase As a the had to install an rather than tear outlhcslaircise Mrs Dawson said The key people in any organ iing committee on this type of project are the site committee adnunistralion and ion people the fund raising committee she said because the town is giving you the land I mean you have to take first site they offer Mrs Dawson said Your site committee has to be firm Among sites which the of Burlington offered Ihe cultural centre committee were an old house which city wus trying lo preserve far us historic value but which was out in the middle of nowhere and a Rolf course building which was also mac and not designed allow handicapped access to the entire building If you have to drive more than minutes to get to a gallery or a theatre then you re culturally deprived Mrs Dawson said GROUPS In designing building the committee approached groups and artists who might make use of such a centre and asked them what their requirements would be Meeting rooms which could Ik rented out for revenue were also included in the design The actual financing for the project came from three areas one third from the city of Burlington one from grants and one third from private and corporate donations Mrs Dawson said The financing actually toy Means HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL ADVICE REASONABLE PRICES Mountainview 1 ended up being over one third because the site was eventual chosen for the centre was The final cost of the Burling ion Cultural Centre was Si million Because the commit tee received two objections to the cultural centre an Ontario Municipal Board hearing was on the project When the approval was given to proceed the tenders which had been closed had expired and the had lo re lender Mrs Asa the hearing cost Ihem in rcased prices about The operating costs of Ihc cultural centre break down as being funded per cent by federal provincial grants per cent by municipal grants 23 per cent by fund raising activities and per cent by earned revenue While members of Ihc questioned necessity for extensive feasibility stud us before embarking on such a project Mrs Dawson said Ihe participants in the project must ask lliemsclves if a cult urjl is warranted If the answer is yes then the group must do research back up I heir proposal when I hey present it council because if there a hole in it council will find it she said The more groups come der the one roof is and the more favorable the government Is Mrs Dawson Mrs Dawson aval lability of funds for sports Facilities as opposed to the relative unavailability of funds for cultural facilities When you talk about sports it s different when you talk a Iran I cut lure you re talking about a frill she said Mrs Dawson out lhai a number of indirect grants in ihc form of tax rebates ire available from the federal One such rebate is worth but to qualify Ihe centre would have to credit courses That is one of the decisions the 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