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If you re one of those people who won t be completely over the pandemic until you re crammed into a crowd of thousands of sweaty people spilling beer over each other while some band performs onstage any band at this point! then the most realistic target to set your sights on is September. That s when America s biggest festival, Bonnaroo (a bellwether for the touring industry), has been rescheduled. Locally, that s when First Avenue staff says it s booking its biggest swath of shows, including outdoor gigs. We may see other sporadic outdoor concerts before then, including big bashes like July s Twin Cities Summer Jam or August s We Fest. Indoor gigs could also return by then with modified, vaccine-related safety protocols. But September seems like the soonest that things will get back to normal, and then we can all go crazy again.
“They cut corners every day, every day,” said Justin Gee, vice-president of First Nations Engineering Services Ltd.
Gee said he encountered these recurring problems while overseeing the work of a construction firm, Kingdom Construction Limited (KCL), during the building of a water treatment plant 10 years ago in Wasauksing First Nation, along the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, about 250 kilometres north of Toronto.
“You have to be on them every step of the way,” said Gee, who was the contract administrator on the project. “You can’t leave them on their own.”
Today, this plant is among seven First Nations water and wastewater infrastructure projects in two provinces, funded by the federal government, that have all involved work by KCL, an Ontario-based firm.