ONTARIO â Following a slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Ontario City Councilor Freddy Rodriguez will bring the Ontario Hydrant Re-paint project back for its third year on Saturday, May 15. On the projectâs Facebook page, Rodriguez wrote, âThis yearâs focus will be on smaller residential streets, and whatever Main Street hydrants werenât touched last year. We encourage citizens to point us in the right direction for residential hydrants in need.â
In a phone interview with the Argus on Friday, Rodriguez said, âItâs not a big project. Itâs just a project to start from the bottomâ to help make the city more presentable to visitors. He also expressed that he hopes for a bigger turnout than in September, which saw very little response due to the pandemic.
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The quilters of Gee s Bend, a remote Alabama community, are particularly well-known in the US for the colourful quilts that they ve been making for over a century, in a tradition passed down from generation to generation. Photo: AFP
These quilting masterpieces have previously been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, but they could soon be coming to your home interior.
The creations of the African-American women quilters of Gee s Bend, Alabama, are now available to buy online for the first time on the Etsy e-commerce platform.
You ve probably already seen these kinds of quilts in US movies and TV shows, without necessarily knowing much about what they are or why they come from. Quilts are essentially bedspreads often made from old dresses and work clothes, as well as feed sacks and fabric scraps.