| U of C Media Event
The three main student media organizations at the University of Calgary are hosting a conference next weekend to examine the role of independent media in the modern world. Balance 2001: Finding the Healthy Medium, presented by the Gauntlet newspaper, CJSW radio and NUTV television, will focus on independent media and its role in delivering balance and diverse coverage.
The three-day event will feature speakers from local independent and corporate media outlets, including keynote speaker Jackie Flanagan, publisher of Alberta Views magazine. Other participants include Calgary Herald editor-in-chief Peter Menzies; Rachel Cohen, the communications co-ordinator for New York-based FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting); and Natalie Kermoal, the executive director of Alberta’s Parkland Institute research centre. There will also be panel discussion involving delegates and participants.
Balance 2001 takes place November 8 to 10. Registration information is available at www.ucalgary.ca/trimedia.
SUPPORTING RADIO
Listener-supported radio is alive and well in Alberta, following the fund-raising campaigns of the CKUA, the province-wide radio network, and CJSW, Calgary’s campus-community radio station.
CKUA raised close to $417,000 in pledges after 15 days of fund-raising that wrapped up on October 27. General manager Ken Regan says the money will help keep the station afloat for the next six months, and any leftovers will be used for capital upgrades. The station holds two campaigns per year.
CJSW raised $138,000 in pledges from October 19 to 26, although the final tally is still to come – the station’s German program had to postpone its funding drive show until Saturday, November 3, and the online pledges the station received have yet to be added up. Station manager Chad Saunders estimates that the final total will be somewhere in the range of $150,000.
CJSW will use the money to offset the expense of establishing a new broadcast tower on Canterra Tower downtown, an estimated cost of $100,000. The remainder will go towards purchasing equipment for the station’s proposed studios and offices, to be located on the third floor of MacEwan Hall on the U of C campus.
COMMUNITY NEWS
· The City of Calgary’s Park Development & Operations is in the process of developing a Calgary Open Space Plan in an effort to ensure open space needs are consistently met over the long term.
The draft plan will be presented to the public at two open houses: Tuesday, November 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Triwood Community Association Hall and Wednesday, November 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Southwood Community Association. A formal presentation will be made at 7 p.m. on both evenings.
· Rather than dragging outdated computers out to a field and gleefully smashing them, Calgarians can take them to the city’s first ever round-up of old computers for recycling.
The initiative will take place on November 3 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Residents can drop off computer monitors, drives, laptops, keyboards, printers, scanners, cables, mice and modems at the Anderson LRT station parking lot and the Deerfoot Mall northwest parking lot free of charge. The collected material will be recycled in its entirety by RetroSystems Inc.
· Rather than dragging used pumpkins out to a field and gleefully smashing them, Calgarians can drop their Halloween jack-o-lanterns at one of the city’s 25 leaf depots or enter them in Clean Calgary’s Pumpkin Graveyard Walk – either way, they end up in the composter instead of the landfill.
Clean Calgary will collect pumpkins at the Rosemont Community Hall at Confederation Park on Thursday, November 1 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday, November 2 from noon to 4 p.m. – all pumpkins will be displayed from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the park, then they will be composted.
The annual leaf deposit program runs until November 10. For a complete list of drop-off locations visit www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/sws/leaf.html or call the Recycling Hotline at 277-7770. |
