JNO1
Active Member
New sculptures installed in the last week or so. Northeast corner oh the square.
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Churchill Square
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IanO
Superstar
Are they permanent or there until the removal of grass and placement of 'deck' in that area?
IanO
Superstar
archited
Senior Member
Jeez... I think my double vision is kicking in again.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Centennial Plaza update from today
IanO
Superstar
I'll await a summer shot to wow me before further comments... but it's not particularly, er, um, anything really.
Are they still putting the daycare playground on top of rate south raised area nicely in the more or less continuous shade of The Westin?
Are they still putting the daycare playground on top of rate south raised area nicely in the more or less continuous shade of The Westin?
Greenspace
Senior Member
^I do not recall a playground.
IanO
Superstar
There was to be an outdoor space and playground for the library daycare where the old stage was.
Gronk!
Senior Member
I just want that 100 St sidewalk west of the Milner to re-open again. It's been closed for 2 or 3 years now. I hope it reopens before the summer festival season kicks off.
trevorhayden
Active Member
As we are coming up on the 20th anniversary of very esteemed Edmontonian Tooker Gomberg's suicide, who would think it would be a good idea to rename the square after him?
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Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
If we are gonna rename Churchill at least someone slightly better.
What better place to have Decore park in the center of the city.
What better place to have Decore park in the center of the city.
JNO1
Active Member
How about if we just leave it as Churchill Square and find other parks/places to honor Gomberg/Decore/others?
David A
Senior Member
I have mixed feelings about the former councilor, some good, some not. But it would be quite a step down to rename a major public square after a controversial one term(?) councilor from that of a historic world leader, without whose leadership, we all might be living under a brutal totalitarian government with no respect for human rights.
I do feel there should be more acknowledgement of Decore who I felt was a good mayor and in particular helped to make a dysfunctional council more focused and effective. I had heard in the past he really did not want prominent things named after him and his family seems to want to honor his wishes.
I do feel there should be more acknowledgement of Decore who I felt was a good mayor and in particular helped to make a dysfunctional council more focused and effective. I had heard in the past he really did not want prominent things named after him and his family seems to want to honor his wishes.
Gronk!
Senior Member
There is the Laurence Decore Lookout on Saskatchewan Drive so there's that.
Tooker Gomberg was an arrogant flake who doesn't even deserve to have a ghetto flophouse named after him.
I agree with @JNO1 - unless Sir Winston turned out to be a racist heroin-addicted child rapist, let Churchill Square be.
Tooker Gomberg was an arrogant flake who doesn't even deserve to have a ghetto flophouse named after him.
I agree with @JNO1 - unless Sir Winston turned out to be a racist heroin-addicted child rapist, let Churchill Square be.
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Well we could flood the bike lanes next to the valley line LRT during the winter and name that the Gomberg memorial downtown skating path. 
Awe I thought my Decore suggestion would have evoked memories of the old pun, "New York may be the Big Apple, but Edmonton has DE CORE"
Awe I thought my Decore suggestion would have evoked memories of the old pun, "New York may be the Big Apple, but Edmonton has DE CORE"