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Hanging in the Church: Images of Europe

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North End installs public art bench

“Reminiscence of Europe: Multi-media and photographic pictures of Rome, Florence, London, Paris.”

One Woman Show by artist Cherie Hanson

Unitarian Fellowship 1310 Bertram Street

November and December

Viewing available to all who rent the space

Open to the public 11:45 to 12:30 Sundays.

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My art work has arrived in Ferrar, Italy and Paola has received the information for the catalogue. The Traces of Memory Show will be in a beautiful castle and from everything I have read is very well publicized. How great it would be to be there with them and to get an opportunity to see Italy again.

But the reality of my life keeps me grounded here. Two major shows are coming up and I need to get together more portfolios for submissions in North America. The discipline is to keep “pitching”. Sometimes it is very hard to prepare a portfolio, to do the work of structuring a show which can take months then to have the portfolio return in less than a month. But the secret is to just keep putting the hook in the water. Sitting by the shore looking longingly at the fish doesn’t create a solution.

At the Rotary Centre, we will be holding a three day art show and sale with the Potters group. Bonnie, my downstairs neighbour, does weeks of work to prepare for this show which fills the hallways of the centre.

I attended the hearing for the Downtown Centre “development” which is backed by the group in town that basically sees economic advantage in the 80’s type growth that dictates tall buildings that do not conform to the look and feel of our beautiful heritage Bernard Avenue. It looks like an alien society, from another planet, landed a development space ship right on the water front.

The water front is rapidly becoming the “right” and domain of those who can afford a million dollar or more apartment. We are swimming against the stream of most of the rest of the enlighted world. Heritage, affordable housing and green building which allows the citizens free access to the natural beauty of the area is the only answer for keeping an environment that is economically attractive. I believe that the central problem is that many of these wall street groupies are so busy that they are not taking the opportunity to read books such as “Whose Your City” by Richard Florida or studies about the new solutions for old cities. Portland has learned so much by just creating a vision, committing to the vision and then devising solutions as they work their way through difficulties. The vertical ghost towns we are creating in a environment that is quite fragile portends an area that is in the long term not attractive for families, older people, bohemians and will be abandoned by the rich. They will simply move on to a city that more mindfully takes care of all of the elements that create a cultural and natural setting they find more admirable. It is inevitable.

City council has over 30 candidates all vying for spots. It is just too much work for most citizens here who don’t turn out in droves to vote. I mean they don’t turn out…. in droves. There is a feeling of lethargy among voters on both the Federal, Municipal and Civic scene. I guess we have to see a tank crossing our borders before we come to think about the borders. Right now, we are just thinking about Desperate Housewives or hockey. Perhaps if we faced the same risk when we vote that so many other citizens of foreign countries face…. we would wake up. After we voted my husband remarked. No one is waiting outside for us to check the stain on our thumbs and kill us for voting. That would get the populous’ attention, hey!

Agricultural Land Reserve

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There was an interesting column in the newspaper recently by a young columnist who expressed the opinion that the ALR is just taking up too much time, emotional energy and financial resources to prevent the moving land out for urban development.

It is always difficult to take the long view. One thing that a person learns as they get older is that sometimes it is the most difficult, and arduous effort that must be expended for the most valuable results.

Here is something to consider: with the negative equity in mortgages building in the U.S. at this time, with the repossessions of new development tracts, condos, and single family dwelling, the ostensibly “valuable” new developments have lost their value in some cases. With less than 5% of land being used to grow food in the world, the short fall is beginning to make itself felt.
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Emphasis on not transporting food vast distances because of the social and economic impact of building infrastructure for highways, paying the exorbitant( and perhaps politically controlled ) rising costs of fuel … just follow the trajectory. Farm land will become increasingly of value. There begins to be a vision of tract houses; empty, ghost town towers built initially for the occasional appearance of a rich gypsy to inhabit it for a few weeks a year; condos that were hastily built and now abandoned or reclaimed by the bank. The vision is of structures which have lost their esteem. The vision is of the tearing down of ill conceived development in order to provide farm land, open land, a place to grow connected to the earth.

Nothing is set in stone… not even stone.