A Calgary councillor is blasting the city for removing several humours plaques that had been put on benches at Bowmont Park..“Uh oh, the fun police are at it again. Do you think the City has better things to do than take down these funny plaques put on benches around Bowmont Park? I do.” tweeted Farkas, who has announced he is running for mayor in 2021..The signs commemorate events such as “Benjy, the first hamster to fly solo around the world took off from this spot in April 1937.”.Another reads: “This bench marks to first confirmed UFO landing in Calgary, in 1963”.The park prankster is so far unidentified..“When I saw the first one, I thought isn’t that cute? It made me smile, and then when we found the next one, then it became a hunt. How many more are there? Where are they?” Jennifer Diakiw, a regular visitor to the park, told CTV..“There’s a really neat person who has done this or group of persons. And I think they’re great. And they’re wonderful.”. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .But the city doesn’t seen the humour in the plaques..Matthew Blair, of Calgary Parks Infrastructure, said no one is allowed to place signs on park benches without approval from the Calgary Parks Foundation..“It’s unwanted. And and it’s arbitrary set, you know, words or graphic imagery of some description that’s been applied by somebody purely unilaterally as is graffiti,” Blair told CTV..“It’s quality graphics, but we can’t just have people putting their own signs up in parks. It would be will be chaos, and terribly expensive for the city to to go around and to remove them all.”.By the end of the day, after public outrage, the city capitulated. The plaques will be put up in other parts of the park, just not the benches..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
A Calgary councillor is blasting the city for removing several humours plaques that had been put on benches at Bowmont Park..“Uh oh, the fun police are at it again. Do you think the City has better things to do than take down these funny plaques put on benches around Bowmont Park? I do.” tweeted Farkas, who has announced he is running for mayor in 2021..The signs commemorate events such as “Benjy, the first hamster to fly solo around the world took off from this spot in April 1937.”.Another reads: “This bench marks to first confirmed UFO landing in Calgary, in 1963”.The park prankster is so far unidentified..“When I saw the first one, I thought isn’t that cute? It made me smile, and then when we found the next one, then it became a hunt. How many more are there? Where are they?” Jennifer Diakiw, a regular visitor to the park, told CTV..“There’s a really neat person who has done this or group of persons. And I think they’re great. And they’re wonderful.”. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .But the city doesn’t seen the humour in the plaques..Matthew Blair, of Calgary Parks Infrastructure, said no one is allowed to place signs on park benches without approval from the Calgary Parks Foundation..“It’s unwanted. And and it’s arbitrary set, you know, words or graphic imagery of some description that’s been applied by somebody purely unilaterally as is graffiti,” Blair told CTV..“It’s quality graphics, but we can’t just have people putting their own signs up in parks. It would be will be chaos, and terribly expensive for the city to to go around and to remove them all.”.By the end of the day, after public outrage, the city capitulated. The plaques will be put up in other parts of the park, just not the benches..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694