| The so-called international language of Esperanto has a new home in Calgary.
The Calgary Esperanto Centre opened its new offices at Suite 600, 909 - 7th Avenue S.W. recently, which is also home to the Dorothy Hawley Esperanto Library, named after the woman who formed the language’s first society in Calgary in 1955.
Esperanto was designed in the 1800s as an easy-to-learn international language. It’s purpose is to enable easier communication and free language from cultural baggage. Its popularity has waxed and waned over the years, but proponents say it is spoken as a second language by two million people worldwide.
The Calgary centre is intended as a facility for people interested in learning and teaching the language.
Stones for Mad Cow
The Rolling Stones SARS benefit concert in Toronto will be simulcast at the Pengrowth Saddledome as an effort to show support to Alberta’s ailing beef industry.
City council agreed on July 21 to put $50,000 towards the cost of beaming the eight-hour concert to the Saddledome’s big screen. Logistics for the event still have to be worked out, but it’s expected to be free of charge.
The concert takes place in Toronto and is planned as a benefit to the city suffering the effects of the SARS outbreak. The disease has hampered the city’s tourism industry.
The Calgary simulcast of the SARS benefit – which features the Rolling Stones, Flaming Lips, AC/DC, Sam Roberts, Rush and Justin Timberlake, among others – is intended to aid the beef industry.
Beltline history tour
The evolving history of the district envisioned as the city’s first truly urban neighbourhood will be highlighted as part of Historic Calgary Week.
Two tours of the Beltline communities of Connaught and Victoria Park will look at community efforts to maintain historic buildings in the area south of downtown and the way those buildings fit into the community as it evolves.
The tours will also highlight the development of the area over time – from a buffalo kill site on 17th Avenue S.W. and pre-First World War buildings to modern buildings that are envisioned as cornerstones of the area’s future development.
The Connaught tour takes place July 30 at 7 p.m., beginning at the Lougheed House (13 Ave. and 6 St. S.W.). The West Victoria tour takes place July 31 at 5 p.m., beginning at the front door of Haultain School (13 Ave. and 2 St. S.W.).
Pie-throwers
At least one of the men charged for throwing a pie in the face of Premier Ralph Klein at a Stampede breakfast is not a student at the University of Calgary, as has been widely reported (including by Fast Forward).
Mark Leigh, one of three men facing assault charges, is not a U of C student. The other two men could not be reached for comment.
Klein says he will go ahead with assault charges against the men. |
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