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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 11:27 AM MT | Last Updated: February 25
A team explores the Arctic Adventure s snow beach, which is equipped with deck chairs, a flamingo toss and chicken darts, which involves throwing a rubber chicken into a target.(Submitted by the Bridgeland-Riverside Community Association)
The Globe and Mail Cailynn Klingbeil Published December 30, 2020
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Four years ago, when Aryanna Gaidhar was a Grade 6 student in Langevin School’s science alternative program, her class took interest in a neglected space near their school.
The spot in the Calgary community of Bridgeland-Riverside, under an overpass that leads into the city’s core, felt forgotten and unsafe. It was in contrast to the many beautiful spaces the 56 students had explored on community walks with their two teachers, leading the class to wonder: Could this vacant area be transformed?
Aryanna and her classmates reimagined the dreary area beneath the Fourth Avenue flyover as a welcoming and fun park, and they collaborated with students in the University of Calgary’s landscape architecture program to create design concepts.
CALGARY At least a dozen businesses in Calgary’s Bridgeland community were targeted by vandals over the weekend. The Golden Bell restaurant was one of them, and the restaurant s manager says she isn’t surprised. “It’s been going on for so long and we’ve been [tagged] multiple times before,” says Cham Kounthavong, manager of Golden Bell. “Now, it’s just getting worse.” The spray-painted buildings span several blocks on 1 Avenue N.E. Some owners say it’s another blow to what has already been a difficult year for their businesses as they navigate through the pandemic. “It’s just very, very sad that people are doing that at this time,” says Kounthavong.