One step closer to fame

Managing Director of Community Services, Gerry Knox (L) Walk of Fame Committee Chair Al McDonald answer questions about the Kiwanis Club's Walk of Fame project.

North Bay’s Walk of Fame took on step closer to reality Monday night as the city's Community Services Committee recommended that a motion of support for the North Bay Kiwanis Club’s endeavour go forward to council.

Managing Director of Community Services, Gerry Knox told the committee that the Kiwanis Club would be responsible to oversee the cost of the project that will be located on Main Street as well as the selection of the honourees; however, the city would be responsible for the installation of the stones. He says the city also reserves the right, at a cost to the Kiwanis Club, to redesign and repair the stones where needed.

Walk of Fame Committee Chair Al McDonald says the Citizen of the Year venue can’t address the multitudes of individuals and groups who might be nominated but don’t fit the criteria, so the committee devised the concept of the walk of fame to say thank you to individuals and groups who have made a difference in the community while putting the city on the provincial, national and international map.

If council passes the motion at next week McDonald says the first cornerstones would be installed at the four corners on Main and Ferguson Streets as early as June of this year. With four more squares added each year heading east and west on Main Street. He says that the committee will open nominations immediately and work to get their message out to the general public.

McDonald says there are so many groups and individuals worthy of celebration that he anticipates the project will have a very long life.