||| An Independent Semi-Wc>>Hp Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central x d Nortec
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, January 25, 1954 v
. . . To This!
;s ago Prince George's Civic Centr:;; \xkeel like this bitious project got underway on rune's subscribed the city's residents. ' About $50, OO- was raised lonations before the centre bincrn! municipal
|jast year.
. Mayor Gordon Bryant has announced l'h�t one of his ils fpri-,'1954 will be completion of the Prince. George Civic ltre within the year.
sment brought "cheers frorr: a crowd of about .. he inserted it into a brief dldnMss with which Prince George Curling Club's t^urty-fourth an-shortly after noon on'Saturday. Bryant says he hopes to see tH't- city calling for the rndmmoth project within 30 days.
Mayor Scores Plan To Try Liquor Laws In Coast Cities
His Worship Mayor Bryant today joined the ranks of other interior mayors and city councillors "who are annoyed at the pro-
aruuiiiinwu of Carpen-j . Joiners of America, that | 's building- committee is 4 to place a recommenda-' jJore the city council short- j Heating expenditure of $68,-, fthe Civic Centre this year.' '0T Bryant explained in -Jryicw later that $18,000 k amount has already been _'ked for civic centre use �was. unexpended by the mncil which approved it, ling $50,000 he said come from the city's iles trust account. .'orship said he did not t provincial government ,, who must approve ex-ires made from land sales would object to the plan, believed the city's build-�nmittee will announce its |to the city council this but will not ask for im-passage of the centre ion plan.
mayor told a Citizen re-he will press for civic completion 'first, install;)-f artificial ice, facilities and renovation of the . third, in his pro-to improve the city's itional facilities. � job of the. building com Jre after council has approved ffi^jrtan will be to get complete itlmates on the job as it has sen- Jaid out by Architect \V aijpti Brownlee.
-Mayor Bryant, said the comple >(TJ)rpjoct would involve installa O.n o� hew windows, construction ^^j^irate entrances for auditor-" curling rink, construction and dressing rooms com-tli plumbing, installation f firing and heating in the rc-lairtd^T of the building, Insula-lori .of walls and special insula-idn^oi. the curling rink ceiling, pplic^tion of stucco to the build-ng|s-..exterior and completion of hes,;auditorium floor.
Hfteiulers are called within 3dj-da.vs the project should be fun\ by midsummer i�\ building should be ready iter its first winter's use the end of this year. of the biggest single items .he civic centre facilities at the | ibutK end.
r,!Tne city building committee's [fljipjtosal Jo complete the civic agwife came just seven years after |ie centre movement got under-ffty here. __,.'
|wB.first;a handful 6f~young city b&kSunessmcn expressed the need W&$k community building of am-^^proportions and they set them^ *gjS*s up as a steering committee li&1948.
movement snowballed and George Civic Centre
Goal of tho association was to raise $100,000 ior fhe building and half of the amtmtii had-bee"n raised by the em'i at 1.152. Donations came slowly from there on and 'arious groups throughout the jity began pres;slnj'.j for municipal participation in th.; huge project.
Meanwhile is farmer Canadian Army drill hall had been purchas ed Iry the civir; centre association and erected at th< Seventh Avenue site in V.W.K
In the fall of 195;; the city coun cil agreed to place a referendum ;ote before the people asking H .he city should tak'.: over the pro ject. The rejer^ndum, placed be fore the elec't r;ate in December 1952, passed jv t>�:t!.er than a two to-one majority.
Negotiatioi then got under way to transfer the centre to ran nicipal ownership. I ate last fal final author iv cmie from th< provincial government and with it came approval of a $28,000 expenditure towarts coriipletion of the structure. *
The 1953 .-l